Python | Substring Key match in dictionary

Sometimes, while working with dictionaries, we might have a use case in which we are not known the exact keys we require but just a specific part of keys that we require to fetch. This kind of problem can arise in many applications. Let’s discuss certain ways in which this problem can be solved.

Method #1 : Using items() + list comprehension
The combination of above method can be used to perform this particular task in which we just access the key value pairs using the items function and list comprehension helps in the iteration and access logic.

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# Python3 code to demonstrate working of
# Substring Key match in dictionary
# Using items() + list comprehension
  
# initializing dictionary
test_dict = {'All' : 1, 'have' : 2, 'good' : 3, 'food' : 4}
  
# initializing search key string
search_key = 'ood'
  
# printing original dictionary
print("The original dictionary is : " + str(test_dict))
  
# Using items() + list comprehension
# Substring Key match in dictionary
res = [val for key, val in test_dict.items() if search_key in key]
  
# printing result 
print("Values for substring keys : " + str(res))

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The original dictionary is : {'All': 1, 'food': 4, 'have': 2, 'good': 3}
Values for substring keys : [4, 3]





 


Method #2 : Using dict() + filter() + lambda

The combination of above functions can be used to perform this particular task. In this, the dict and filter function is used to convert the result to dictionary and query for the substring in list respectively. The lambda performs the task of accessing all key-value pairs.











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# Python3 code to demonstrate working of 


# Substring Key match in dictionary 


# Using dict() + filter() + lambda 


  


# initializing dictionary 


test_dict = {'All' : 1, 'have' : 2, 'good' : 3, 'food' : 4} 


  


# initializing search key string 


search_key = 'ood'


  


# printing original dictionary 


print("The original dictionary is : " + str(test_dict)) 


  


# Using dict() + filter() + lambda 


# Substring Key match in dictionary 


res = dict(filter(lambda item: search_key in item[0], test_dict.items())) 


  


# printing result  


print("Key-Value pair for substring keys : " + str(res)) 



















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The original dictionary is : {'have': 2, 'good': 3, 'food': 4, 'All': 1}
Key-Value pair for substring keys : {'good': 3, 'food': 4}






          
          
          
          

            

    

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