On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Jim Mooney <cybervigila...@gmail.com>wrote:
> When I try to get the keys of a dictionary, such as d.keys(), I get
> the below instead of a plain list, and it's not very usable. How can I
> use the keys from this like it was a list, or is this basically
> useless other than to see the keys or values?
>
> *** Python 3.3.2 (v3.3.2:d047928ae3f6, May 16 2013, 00:03:43) [MSC
> v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32. ***
> >>> d.keys()
> dict_keys(['alpha', 'olf', 'bog', 'dog'])
>
I'm not sure what you want to do with your keys, but very commonly people
do this:
for k in d:
# do something with k
I'm using python 2.7 but here is an example:
>>> d ={'a': 1, 'b': 2}
>>> d
{'a': 1, 'b': 2}
>>> d.keys()
['a', 'b']
>>> for k in d:
... print k
...
a
b
>>>
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