HELP! Simple question re: dictionaries

[Michael Hudson]

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.

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