Copying state_dict

Is it allowed to copy model dictionary keys from a checkpoint one at a time instead of load_state_dict which copies all keys at a time?
Using PyTorch 0.4.

according to this example it does not seem possible:

d2 = dict((k,inception_v3.state_dict()[k]) for k in ['conv1.weight'])
inception_v3.load_state_dict(d2)

throws the error:

RuntimeError: Error(s) in loading state_dict for ResNet:
Missing key(s) in state_dict: “bn1.weight”, “bn1.bias”, “bn1.running_mean”, “bn1.running_var”, “layer1.0.conv1.weight”, “layer1.0.bn1.weight”, “layer1.0.bn1.bias”, “layer1.0.bn1.running_mean”, “layer1.0.bn1.running_var”, “layer1.0.conv2.weight”, “layer1.0.bn2.weight”, “layer1.0.bn2.bias”, “layer1.0.bn2.running_mean”, “layer1.0.bn2.running_var”, “layer1.1.conv1.weight”, “layer1.1.bn1.weight”, “layer1.1.bn1.bias”, “layer1.1.bn1.running_mean”, “layer1.1.bn1.running_var”, “layer1.1.conv2.weight”, “layer1.1.bn2.weight”, “layer1.1.bn2.bias”, “layer1.1.bn2.running_mean”, “layer1.1.bn2.running_var”, “layer2.0.conv1.weight”, “layer2.0.bn1.weight”, “layer2.0.bn1.bias”, “layer2.0.bn1.running_mean”, “layer2.0.bn1.running_var”, “layer2.0.conv2.weight”, “layer2.0.bn2.weight”, “layer2.0.bn2.bias”, “layer2.0.bn2.running_mean”, “layer2.0.bn2.running_var”, “layer2.0.downsample.0.weight”, “layer2.0.downsample.1.weight”, “layer2.0.downsample.1.bias”, “layer2.0.downsample.1.running_mean”, “layer2.0.downsample.1.running_var”, “layer2.1.conv1.weight”, “layer2.1.bn1.weight”, “layer2.1.bn1.bias”, “layer2.1.bn1.running_mean”, “layer2.1.bn1.running_var”, “layer2.1.conv2.weight”, “layer2.1.bn2.weight”, “layer2.1.bn2.bias”, “layer2.1.bn2.running_mean”, “layer2.1.bn2.running_var”, “layer3.0.conv1.weight”, “layer3.0.bn1.weight”, “layer3.0.bn1.bias”, “layer3.0.bn1.running_mean”, “layer3.0.bn1.running_var”, “layer3.0.conv2.weight”, “layer3.0.bn2.weight”, “layer3.0.bn2.bias”, “layer3.0.bn2.running_mean”, …