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?
If you really need a list you can use the built-in list() constructor
since the return value of d.keys() is an iterable:
>>> d = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, 'd': 4}
>>> list(d.keys())
['a', 'c', 'b', 'd']
Notice that the order of the keys is arbitrary.
But usually you just iterate over the keys.
(In Python 2, d.keys() actually returns a list).
Bye, Andreas
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