Removing an item from a dictionary without prior key check

Complete the delete function, which removes an element with the specified key key from the given dictionary d. If such a key does not exist, an exception should not be generated. It is forbidden to use conditional statements if to check for the presence of the key, as well as try/except blocks or the contextlib.suppress utility.

import json

def delete(d: dict, key: str) -> dict:
    """Deletes a key from a dictionary if it exists.
    Args:
        d: The dictionary to modify.
        key: The key to delete.
    Returns:
        The modified dictionary.
    """
    if key in d:
        del d[key]
    return d

if __name__ == "__main__":
    d_str, k = input().split(';')
    d = json.loads(d_str)
    print(dict(sorted(delete(d, k).items())))