container-indepentent iteration code ?

[flacco]

Jeremy Bowers wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 19:27:38 -0400, flacco wrote:
> 
>>is there a way to iterate over the *values* in a list/dict/whatever, 
>>regardless of whether it's a list, dict, or whatever?  ie, the iteration 
>>code will not know beforehand what kind of container it's getting.
> 
> In what way does
> 
> for obj in container:
> 
> not meet your needs?

i always want obj to be the value.  dicts, for example, yield keys 
instead of values (i think?)...