I'm trying to delete a specific input of user using del function but it deletes the whole key values below it

for account3 in accounts:
    print("\t   ", account3["Name"].ljust(25), account3["Username"].ljust(27), account3["Password"])

    userinput = input('Account Name you want to delete: ')
    for account4 in accounts:
        if userinput == account4["Name"]:
            userinput = input('Re-enter name to confirm: ')

            for account5 in accounts:
                if userinput == account5["Name"]:
                    del account5["Name"], account5["Username"], account5["Password"]
                    print('Deleted Successfully!')
                    menu()
                    break

After the user confirms the deletion, it deletes all values in the dictionary and gives a key error: "name". Is there any way to delete only the information given by the user?

CodePudding user response：

Setting the values to None is what you want instead of deleting the entries.

Replace the del line with this.

account5["Name"], account5["Username"], account5["Password"] = None, None, None

CodePudding user response：

To avoid having to loop through the list multiple times to find the matching account, I suggest building a dict that maps the name to each account, and using accounts.remove() to remove the account.

accounts_by_name = {account["Name"]: account for account in accounts}

for account in accounts:
    print("\t   ", account3["Name"].ljust(25), account3["Username"].ljust(27), account3["Password"])
    name = input("Account name you want to delete: ")
    if name not in accounts_by_name:
        continue
    if input("Re-enter name to confirm: ") != name:
        continue
    accounts.remove(accounts_by_name[name])
    menu()
    break