Delete dict and subdict items of some name

[Mitya Sirenef]

On 12/17/2012 01:30 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 12/17/12 11:43, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>> On 12/17/2012 12:27 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
>>> Hello. What I want to do is delete every dictionary key/value
>>> of the name 'Favicon' regardless of depth in subdicts, of which
>>> there are many. What is the best way to do it?
>> Something like this should work:
>>
>> def delkey(d, key):
>>       if isinstance(d, dict):
>>           if key in d: del d[key]
>>           for val in d.values():
>>               delkey(val, key)
> Unless you have something hatefully recursive like
>
>    d = {}
>    d["hello"] = d
>
> :-)

True -- didn't think of that..!

I guess then adding a check 'if val is not d: delkey(val, key)'
would take care of it?

  -m


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