def clean_dict(dictionary, **kwargs):
"""
Returns a dictionary without any keys starting with kwargs['start'] (default '_' underscore).
"""
data = {}
start = kwargs.get('start', '_')
for key, val in six.iteritems(dictionary):
if not key.startswith(start):
data[key] = val
return data
def clean_kwargs(**kwargs):
"""
Returns a dictionary without any keys starting with "__" (double underscore).
"""
data = {}
start = kwargs.get('start', '__')
for key, val in six.iteritems(kwargs):
if not key.startswith(start):
data[key] = val
return data
