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

You could project the Name attribute out of each element in the list and join the results with newlines:

>>> print '\n'.join(x['Name'] for x in thisismylist)
Albert
Suzy
Johnny

Edit

It took me a few minutes, but I remembered the other interesting way to do this. You can use a combination of itertools and the operator module to do this as well. You can see it on repl.it too.

>>> from itertools import imap
>>> from operator import itemgetter
>>> print '\n'.join(imap(itemgetter('Name'), thisismylist))
Albert
Suzy
Johnny

In any case, you are probably better off using a vanilla for loop, but I figured that some other options were in order.