<avi.e.gr...@gmail.com> writes: > Loris wrote: > > "Yes, I was mistakenly thinking that the popping the element would leave > me with the dict minus the popped key-value pair. Seem like there is no > such function." > > Others have tried to explain and pointed out you can del and then use the > changed dict. > > But consider the odd concept of writing your own trivial function. > > def remaining(adict, anitem): > _ = adict.pop(anitem) > # alternatively duse del on dict and item > return adict > > >>>> remaining({"first": 1, "second": 2, "third": 3}, "second") > {'first': 1, 'third': 3} > > > Or do you want to be able to call it as in dict.remaining(key) by > subclassing your own variant of dict and adding a similar method?
No, 'del' does indeed do what I wanted, although I have now decided I want something else :-) Nevertheless it is good to know that 'del' exists, so that I don't have to reinvent it. Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under constuction. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list