On Thursday 21 September 2006 09:42, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> After trying to use it a few times with no success :-), I'd like
>
> to include a new method, dict.discard, mirroring set.discard:
> >>> print set.discard.__doc__
>
> Remove an element from a set if it is a member.
>
> If the element is not a member, do nothing.
Would the argument be the key, or the pair? I'd guess the key.
If so, there's the 2-arg flavor of dict.pop():
>>> d = {}
>>> d.pop("key", None)
It's not terribly obvious, but does the job without enlarging the dict API.
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
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