Remove dictionary from list

Question

If I have a list of dictionaries, say:

[{\'id\': 1, \'name\': \'paul\'},
 {\'id\': 2, \'name\': \'john\'}]

and I would like to remove the d

Answer 1

# assume ls contains your list
for i in range(len(ls)):
    if ls[i]['id'] == 2:
        del ls[i]
        break

Will probably be faster than the list comprehension methods on average because it doesn't traverse the whole list if it finds the item in question early on.