Deleting An Optional Dict Entry (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 07:19 pm, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> The construct
> 
>     del «dict»[«key»]
> 
> deletes the entry with key «key» from the dictionary «dict», provided it
> exists. If it does not, you get a KeyError.
> 
> To delete an entry which might or might not exist, the simplest way is this:
> 
>     «dict».pop(«key», None)
> 
> Actually, the second argument to the pop method doesn’t matter, since the
> result from the call is ignored in this case.

Nice hint.




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Steve
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