convert list of dicts to list

Question

I have a list of fields in this form

fields = [{\'name\':\'count\', \'label\':\'Count\'},{\'name\':\'type\', \'label\':\'Type\'}]

I\'d like

Answer 1

If the form is well defined, meaning, 'name' must be defined in each dict, then you may use:

map(lambda x: x['name'], fields)

else, you may use filter before extracting, just to make sure you don't get KeyError

map(lambda x: x['name'], filter(lambda x: x.has_key('name'), fields))