How to remove a key from a Python dictionary?

Question

When deleting a key from a dictionary, I use:

if \'key\' in my_dict:
    del my_dict[\'key\']

Is there a one line way of doing this?

Answer 1

Single filter on key

• return "key" and remove it from my_dict if "key" exists in my_dict
• return None if "key" doesn't exist in my_dict

this will change my_dict in place (mutable)

my_dict.pop('key', None)

Multiple filters on keys

generate a new dict (immutable)

dic1 = {
    "x":1,
    "y": 2,
    "z": 3
}

def func1(item):
    return  item[0]!= "x" and item[0] != "y"

print(
    dict(
        filter(
            lambda item: item[0] != "x" and item[0] != "y", 
            dic1.items()
            )
    )
)