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Asked: 2026-05-15T06:59:49+00:00

In PHP, I had this line matches = preg_grep(‘/^for/’, array_keys($hash)); What it would do

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In PHP, I had this line matches = preg_grep('/^for/', array_keys($hash)); What it would do is it would grab the words: fork, form etc. that are in $hash.

In Python, I have a dict with 400,000 words. It’s keys are words I’d like to present in an auto-complete like feature (the values in this case are meaningless). How would I be able to return the keys from my dictionary that match the input?

For example (as used earlier), if I have

my_dic = t{"fork" : True, "form" : True, "fold" : True, "fame" : True}

and I get some input "for", It’ll return a list of "fork", "form".

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    >>> mydict={"fork" : True, "form" : True, "fold" : True, "fame" : True}
>>> [k for k in mydict if k.startswith("for")]
['fork', 'form']

    This should be faster than using a regular expression (and sufficient if you’re just looking for word beginnings).

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