Why isn't this code working how I want it to?

[Jussi Piitulainen]

reubennottage at gmail.com writes:

> [...] The following doesn't work.
> 
> for fillempt in testdict:
>     if fillempt == 'filled':
>         print(testdict[fillempt])

This is equivalent to

for fillempt in testdict:
   if fillempt == 'filled':
      print(testdict['filled'])

which in turn can be optimized to

if 'filled' in testdict:
   print(testdict['filled'])

without knowing anything of the contents of tesdict.