Getting a list of values from a list of dicts

Question

I have a list of dicts like this:

[{\'value\': \'apple\', \'blah\': 2}, 
 {\'value\': \'banana\', \'blah\': 3} , 
 {\'value\': \'cars\', \'blah\': 4}]
         


        

Answer 1

Assuming every dict has a value key, you can write (assuming your list is named l)

[d['value'] for d in l]

If value might be missing, you can use

[d['value'] for d in l if 'value' in d]