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

Supposed your python version is 3.6 or greater, and that you don't need the deleted item this would be less expensive...

If the dictionaries in the list are unique :

for i in range(len(dicts)):
    if dicts[i].get('id') == 2:
        del dicts[i]
        break

If you want to remove all matched items :

for i in range(len(dicts)):
    if dicts[i].get('id') == 2:
        del dicts[i]

You can also to this to be sure getting id key won't raise keyerror regardless the python version

if dicts[i].get('id', None) == 2