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I've found 2 ways of doing it:

del dict[key]

vs

dict.pop(key)

Which one is better and why, or maybe there's more?

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    or maybe http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5713218/best-method-to-delete-an-item-from-a-dict; the other one was about lists – Sam Jul 08 '15 at 07:06

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del is generally faster than pop().

Have a look at this discussion Best way to remove an item from a Python dictionary?

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