Python Accessing Values in A List of Dictionaries

Question

Say I have a List of dictionaries that have Names and ages and other info, like so:

thisismylist= [  
              {\'Name\': \'Albert\' , \'Age\': 16},
          


        

Answer 1

Looks like you need to go over the Python flow-control documentation. Basically, you just loop over all the items in your list, and then for each of those items (dictionaries, in this case) you can access whatever values you want. The code below, for instance, will print out every value in every dictionary inside the list.

for d in my_list:
    for key in d:
        print d[key]

Note that this doesn't print the keys, just the values. To print the keys as well, make your print statement print key, d[key]. That easy!

But really, go read the flow-control documentation; it's very nice.