How to copy one key pair value from one dictionary to another in python [duplicate]

Question

Lets say I have a dictionary:

mydict = {"color":"green",
          "type":"veg",
          "fruit":"apple",
          "level": 5
          }
new_dict = {}

I would like to append the key "color" and "fruit" and their values receptively into the new_dict. what is the easiest way to do that? Thank you.

Answer 1

You can try this:

new_dict = {x:mydict[x] for x in mydict if x in ('color','fruit')}

Answer 2

the easiest way is this:

new_dict["color"] = mydict["color"]

however, if you had a larger list of items you need to pass to a new dict, you could use the following:

items = ["color", "fruit"]
for item in items:
    new_dict[item] = mydict[item]