looping through the keys of a dictionary

[Markus Schaber]

Burkhard Kloss <bk at xk7.com> schrub:

>> Is there a way to loop through the keys of a dictionary (whitout
>> using a list containing all those keys)?
>>
>> e.g. mydict = {'123':[1,9,13],'125':[6,8],'225':[5]}
> for key in mydict.keys():
>     print key, mydict [key]
> 
> should do the trick

It does, but

>>> for key,value in mydict.items():
...     print key, value

seems to be faster in my eyes, as it doesn't have a dictionary lookup 
every round.

markus
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