Python: Check if one dictionary is a subset of another larger dictionary

Question

I\'m trying to write a custom filter method that takes an arbitrary number of kwargs and returns a list containing the elements of a database-like list that contain

Answer 1

I know this question is old, but here is my solution for checking if one nested dictionary is a part of another nested dictionary. The solution is recursive.

def compare_dicts(a, b):
    for key, value in a.items():
        if key in b:
            if isinstance(a[key], dict):
                if not compare_dicts(a[key], b[key]):
                    return False
            elif value != b[key]:
                return False
        else:
            return False
    return True