On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Paul Rubin <no.em...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> writes:
>> def _scrunch(**dict):
>> result = {}
>>
>> for key, value in dict.items():
>> if value is not None: result[key] = value
>>
>> return result
>>
>> That says "throw away every item in a dict if the Value is None".
>> Are there any tighter or smarmier ways to do that? Python does so
>> often manage maps better than that...
>
> Untested:
>
> def _scrunch(**kwargs):
> return dict(k,v for k,v in kwargs.iteritems() if v is not None)
Also, in Python 3, one can instead use a dict comprehension (see PEP
274: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0274/ ), which makes this a
bit more elegant:
result = {k:v for k,v in kwargs.items() if v is not None}
Cheers,
Chris
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