Syntax for extracting multiple items from a dictionary

[Dave Merrill]

"anton muhin" wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
> >
> >
> > shark schrieb:
> >
> >> row = {"fname" : "Frank", "lname" : "Jones", "city" : "Hoboken",
> >> "state" :
> >> "Alaska"}
> >> cols = ("city", "state")
> >>
> >> Is there a best-practices way to ask for an object containing only the
> >> keys
> >> named in cols out of row? In other words, to get this:
> >> {"city" : "Hoboken", "state" : "Alaska"}
> >
> >
> > Untested:
> >
> > dict( (key,value) for (key,value) in row.iteritems() if key in cols )
> >
> > Works in Py2.4
> >
> > Stefan
>
> Or dict((key, row[key]) for key in cols).
>
> regards,
> anton.

I'm on Py 2.3.3, and neither of these appear to work. Can someone confirm? I
can't see anything in the 2.4 release notes that point to where this would
have changed.

Thanks,

shark