Deleting a few list items inside of dictionary

Question

Deleting a few list items inside of dictionary

Hi, I have a dictionary:

phone = {\"first\":100,\"second\":200,\"third\":[10,12,5,38],\"fourth\":400}
         


        

Answer 1

http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html#the-del-statement del is a way to delete by index not value, however you can search the index first if you want. Better to use remove if you want to delete by value.

To delete the element at index 1 and 2

>>> phone = {"first":100,"second":200,"third":[10,12,5,38],"fourth":400}
>>> del phone["third"][1]
>>> del phone["third"][2]
>>> phone
{'second': 200, 'fourth': 400, 'third': [10, 5], 'first': 100}