How to filter dictionary keys based on its corresponding values

Question

I have:

dictionary = {\"foo\":12, \"bar\":2, \"jim\":4, \"bob\": 17}

I want to iterate over this dictionary, but over the values instead of the

Answer 1

It depends if you would like to modify the dictionary (add or remove items) or not. If not then you could try:

for value in dictionary.itervalues():  #this returns a generator
     print "do something with the value"

Alternatively if you modify the dictionary you should iterate over a copy of values:

for value in dictionary.values():  #this returns a list of values
     print "do something with the value"

If you would like both keys and values you can iterate over pairs using dictionary.iteritems() or dictionary.items()