Python Dictionaries – del, clear

This is a continuation of Kiran’s Python Dictionaries post. There were few online and offline questions, so thought of writing a post on del and clear commands on Python Dictionary.

Few Dictionary operations

To better explain, let us create a sample dictionary for our explanation.

fruit= {"ORange":"I love ORange",
       "Apple":"Apple is good for health"}
print ("Entire defined dictionary values")
fruit

1. How to Delete a key from Dictionary

fruit= {"ORange":"I love ORange",
       "Apple":"Apple is good for health"}
#Delete command is as below
print ("Delete a single element")
del fruit["Apple"]
fruit

2. How to Delete entire Dictionary

fruit= {"ORange":"I love ORange",
       "Apple":"Apple is good for health"}
print ('Delete the dictionary')
del fruit
fruit

3. How to Clear entire Dictionary

fruit= {"ORange":"I love ORange",
       "Apple":"Apple is good for health"}
print ('Clear the dictionary elements')
fruit.clear()
fruit

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