Walk through dictionary keys?

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Wed Dec 20 01:53:02 EST 2000


Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:

>I'm not sure when or how long this has been in, but the cvs version of 
>dict's has a popitem method that looks like it does what you want.
>
>d = {1:11,2:22,3:33,4:44}
>for i in xrange(len(d)):
>     print d.popitem()

But is popitem destructive?  That is, when that loop is complete, is d
empty?
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