Proper deletion of selected items during map iteration in for loop
Matthew Barnett
mrabarnett at mrabarnett.plus.com
Fri Apr 25 14:04:40 EDT 2014
On 2014-04-25 18:53, Charles Hixson wrote:
> What is the proper way to delete selected items during iteration of a
> map? What I want to do is:
>
> for (k, v) in m.items():
> if f(k):
> # do some processing of v and save result elsewhere
> del m[k]
>
> But this gives (as should be expected):
> RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration
> In the past I've accumulated the keys to be deleted in a separate list,
> but this time there are likely to be a large number of them, so is there
> some better way?
>
The other way is to build a new dictionary.
Actually, there's a third way. Iterate over a snapshot:
for (k, v) in list(m.items()):
if f(k):
# do some processing of v and save result elsewhere
del m[k]
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