Elegant way to remove items from sequence in Python? [duplicate]

Answer 1

To answer your question about working with dictionaries, you should note that Python 3.0 will include dict comprehensions:

>>> {i : chr(65+i) for i in range(4)}

In the mean time, you can do a quasi-dict comprehension this way:

>>> dict([(i, chr(65+i)) for i in range(4)])

Or as a more direct answer:

dict([(key, name) for key, name in some_dictionary.iteritems if name[-5:] != 'Smith'])