Removing multiple keys from a dictionary safely

I know how to remove an entry, 'key' from my dictionary d, safely. You do:

if d.has_key('key'):
    del d['key']

However, I need to remove multiple entries from a dictionary safely. I was thinking of defining the entries in a tuple as I will need to do this more than once.

entities_to_remove = ('a', 'b', 'c')
for x in entities_to_remove:
    if x in d:
        del d[x]

However, I was wondering if there is a smarter way to do this?

Using dict.pop:

d = {'some': 'data'}
entries_to_remove = ('any', 'iterable')
for k in entries_to_remove:
    d.pop(k, None)

Using Dict Comprehensions

final_dict = {key: t[key] for key in t if key not in [key1, key2]}

where key1 and key2 are to be removed.

In the example below, keys "b" and "c" are to be removed & it's kept in a keys list.

>>> a
{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2, 'd': 4}
>>> keys = ["b", "c"]
>>> print {key: a[key] for key in a if key not in keys}
{'a': 1, 'd': 4}
>>> 

Why not like this:

entries = ('a', 'b', 'c')
the_dict = {'b': 'foo'}

def entries_to_remove(entries, the_dict):
    for key in entries:
        if key in the_dict:
            del the_dict[key]

A more compact version was provided by mattbornski using dict.pop()

a solution is using map and filter functions

python 2

d={"a":1,"b":2,"c":3}
l=("a","b","d")
map(d.__delitem__, filter(d.__contains__,l))
print(d)

python 3

d={"a":1,"b":2,"c":3}
l=("a","b","d")
list(map(d.__delitem__, filter(d.__contains__,l)))
print(d)

you get:

{'c': 3}