How to delete items from a dictionary while iterating over it?

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Is it legitimate to delete items from a dictionary in Python while iterating over it?

For example:

for k, v in mydict.iteritems():
   if k == val:
     del mydict[k]

The idea is to remove elements that don’t meet a certain condition from the dictionary, instead of creating a new dictionary that’s a subset of the one being iterated over.

Is this a good solution? Are there more elegant/efficient ways?

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