The del
statement removes an element:
del d[key]
Note that this mutates the existing dictionary, so the contents of the dictionary changes for anybody else who has a reference to the same instance. To return a new dictionary, make a copy of the dictionary:
def removekey(d, key): r = dict(d) del r[key] return r
The dict()
constructor makes a shallow copy. To make a deep copy, see the copy
module.
Note that making a copy for every dict del
/assignment/etc. means you’re going from constant time to linear time, and also using linear space. For small dicts, this is not a problem. But if you’re planning to make lots of copies of large dicts, you probably want a different data structure, like a HAMT (as described in this answer).
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