Compile list of dictianories out of another list of dictianories by certain keys

[perfringo]

this is a good solution but not a pythonic solution;
You should always try to avoid nested loop where possible and take advantage of list/dict comprehension;
and more --> try to simplify the problem -->
in this case You only need to know if kwargs' dict is a subset of the 'row' dict (as constraint made by OT) , no checking loop needed:

I agree that flat is better than nested. And I like subset idea.

But regarding 'pythonic'.... if we look at the the code provided then generator expression has also nested for-loop (albeit on one row) and character count is not in line with 'Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters.'. So, how should one judge this code from perspective of being 'pythonic'... .

Applying 'pythonic' convention to tackle long line ('Continuation lines should align wrapped elements either vertically using Python's implicit line joining inside parentheses, brackets and braces, or using a hanging indent'):

def filter_dicts(data, *args, **kwargs):
    return  ({key: row[key] for key in args}
              for row in data
              if row.items() >= kwargs.items())

and as OP already mentioned, these codes are not equal as give different results with different datasets. You know, all that stuff regarding errors passed silently.