removing items from a dictionary ?

[Ben Finney]

Stef Mientki <S.Mientki-nospam at mailbox.kun.nl> writes:

> I want to remove some items from a dictionary,
> so I would expect this should work:
> 
>   Nets = {}
>   ... fill the dictionary Nets
> 
>   for net in Nets:
>     if net.upper() in Eagle_Power_Nets :
>       del Nets [ net ]

Don't change the thing you're currently iterating over. Instead,
iterate over a copy:

    >>> eagle_power_nets = ['eggs', 'beans']
    >>> nets = {'spam': 10, 'eggs': 20, 'ham': 30}
    >>> for name in list(nets.keys()):
    ...     if name in eagle_power_nets:
    ...         del nets[name]
    ... 
    >>> nets
    {'ham': 30, 'spam': 10}


Style hints (from <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>):

* Don't name an instance with Upper_Case; the convention is for
  instances to be named as lower_case_with_underscores, and classes to
  be named in TitleCase.

* Don't put spaces inside the bracketing characters '[]', '{}', '()'.

* Don't separate the item specifier '[foo]' or the function parameters
  '(bar)' from the identifier; instead follow it immediately,
  'foo_list[foo]', 'bar_func(bar)'.

None of these are mandatory, but they'll make your code comply with
what Python programmers expect and thus be more easily maintained.

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Ben Finney