How to remove specific element from the dictionary?

Question

How to remove a specific element or data from the dictionary? Suppose I have this dictionary

data = {
    'name': 'Instagram',
    'follower_count': 346,
    'description': 'Social media platform',
    'country': 'United States'
}

and I don't want the element 'follower_count': 346 to be printed. What should be the operation?

Does this answer your question? [Delete an element from a dictionary](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5844672/delete-an-element-from-a-dictionary) — Giorgos Xou, Jul 27 '21 at 09:43

Dave Pradana · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-27T09:54:59.580

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use dictionary built in pop() method which accept the key name as a parameter and which will remove the specified key value pair off the dictionary.

in your case it will be

data = { 'name': 'Instagram', 'follower_count': 346, 'description': 'Social media platform', 'country': 'United States' }

print(data.pop('follower_count'))

edited Jul 27 '21 at 09:54

answered Jul 27 '21 at 09:46

Dave Pradana

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You're welcome, I wish you a very fun journey in Learning more about programming. :-) – Dave Pradana Jul 27 '21 at 16:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 27 '21 at 09:48

Use pop

data = { 'name': 'Instagram', 'follower_count': 346, 'description':'Social media platform', 'country': 'United States' }
data.pop("follower_count")
print(data)

Output:

{'country': 'United States', 'description': 'Social media platform', 'name': 'Instagram'}

How to remove specific element from the dictionary?

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