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Dictionaries — Question 20

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Question 20

Which of the following will delete key_value pair for key="tiger" in dictionary?

di = {"lion":"wild","tiger":"wild","cat": "domestic", "dog":"domestic"}
  1. del di["tiger"]
  2. di["tiger"].delete( )
  3. delete(di["tiger"])
  4. del(di.["tiger"])
Answer

del di["tiger"]

Reason — del keyword is used to delete an item with the specified key name. Here, tiger is the key name which is specified with del statement in expression: del di["tiger"]. Hence, it will delete tiger entry from the di.