HELP! Simple question re: dictionaries

[chibaA at TinterlogD.Tcom]

I'll give it a shot - thanks!

kc

On 10 May 2000 20:34:09 +0100, Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>chibaA at TinterlogD.Tcom writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just want to write a for statement to go through each element of a
>> dictonary.  I would have assumed it would look something like this
>> (argumentList being the dictonary):
>> 
>> for ___ in argumentList:
>> 	# whatever...
>> 
>> ... but I'm not sure of the exact syntax.  If anyone knows, could you
>> let me know?  Thanks!
>
>for key,value in argumentList.items():
>    # whatever ...
>
>is pretty idiomatic...
>
>Cheers,
>M.
>
>-- 
>34. The string  is a stark data  structure and  everywhere it is 
>    passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect 
>    vehicle for hiding information.
>     -- Alan Perlis, http://www.cs.yale.edu/~perlis-alan/quotes.html