Efficient way to remove keys with empty strings from a dict

Question

I have a dict and would like to remove all the keys for which there are empty value strings.

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Answer 1

Based on Ryan's solution, if you also have lists and nested dictionaries:

For Python 2:

def remove_empty_from_dict(d):
    if type(d) is dict:
        return dict((k, remove_empty_from_dict(v)) for k, v in d.iteritems() if v and remove_empty_from_dict(v))
    elif type(d) is list:
        return [remove_empty_from_dict(v) for v in d if v and remove_empty_from_dict(v)]
    else:
        return d

For Python 3:

def remove_empty_from_dict(d):
    if type(d) is dict:
        return dict((k, remove_empty_from_dict(v)) for k, v in d.items() if v and remove_empty_from_dict(v))
    elif type(d) is list:
        return [remove_empty_from_dict(v) for v in d if v and remove_empty_from_dict(v)]
    else:
        return d