delete all keys except one in dictionary
Why don't you just create a new one?
lang = {'en': lang['en']}
Edit: Benchmark between mine and jimifiki's solution:
$ python -m timeit "lang = {'ar':'arabic', 'ur':'urdu','en':'english'}; en_value = lang['en']; lang.clear(); lang['en'] = en_value"
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.369 usec per loop
$ python -m timeit "lang = {'ar':'arabic', 'ur':'urdu','en':'english'}; lang = {'en': lang['en']}"
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.319 usec per loop
Edit 2: jimifiki's pointed out in the comments that my solution keeps the original object unchanged.
pop()
it via for
loop like this
[s.pop(k) for k in list(s.keys()) if k != 'en']
This is quite fast:
En_Value = lang['en']
lang.clear()
lang['en'] = En_Value
Iterate over keys()
instead:
for k in lang.keys():
if k != 'en':
del lang_name[k]
If you're using Python 3 I believe you need to use list(lang.keys())
instead.