On Mar 12, 3:35 pm, Nick Mellor <thebalance...@gmail.com> wrote:
> event['Items'] is an exhausted (all used up) iterable.
>
> Now I do the following (lines 142-4):
>
> event.update({'Attributes': filtered_attributes})
> del event['Items']
> yield event
>
> and get a KeyError on the del statement.
>
> Is there some deep design in Python here, that it won't delete a
> dict value that's an (exhausted) iterator, or have I found a bug?
You're effectively doing this:
>>> event = dict(Items=[1,2,3])
>>> for e in event['Items']:
... del event['Items']
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
KeyError: 'Items'
You want to move your del statement up an indentation level so it
happens after the iterator is actually exhausted, and not after the
first iteration.
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