Bill Campbell wrote: > Is the behaviour defined if one is processing a dictionary using > iteritems, and delete items? > > for k, v in d.iteritems(): > if somecondition(k, v): del d[k] > > Would this process all the original members of the dictionary?
This is not well-defined. You can use for k, v in d.items(): which creates a new list to hold the items and iterates that. > I've always been leary of deleting items while processing things > like this, keeping a list of keys to be deleted, then processing > that list upon completion of the mail loop to delete the items > from the original dictionary or database file. I don't know about bsddb but for lists and dicts that is the right approach. You can also use a list comprehension to filter a list or dict. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
