Filter dict to contain only certain keys?

Question

I\'ve got a dict that has a whole bunch of entries. I\'m only interested in a select few of them. Is there an easy way to prune all the other ones out?

Answer 1

We can do simply with lambda function like this:

>>> dict_filter = lambda x, y: dict([ (i,x[i]) for i in x if i in set(y) ])
>>> large_dict = {"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4}
>>> new_dict_keys = ("c","d")
>>> small_dict=dict_filter(large_dict, new_dict_keys)
>>> print(small_dict)
{'c': 3, 'd': 4}
>>>