Need help with getting Key, Value out of dicts in lists

Kenton Brede kbrede at gmail.com
Sat Apr 8 20:55:51 EDT 2017


This is an example of the data I'm working with.  The key/value pairs may
come in any order. There are some keys like the 'Resource_group_id' key and
the 'Name' key which will always be present, but other lists may have
unique keys.

alist = [[{u'Value': 'shibboleth-prd', u'Key': 'Name'}, {u'Value': 'kvmu',
u'Key': 'Billing'},
            {u'Value': '20179204-181622543367489', u'Key':
'Resource_group_id'}],
           [{u'Value': '20172857-152037106154311', u'Key':
'Resource_group_id'},
            {u'Value': 'shibboleth-tst', u'Key': 'Name'}]]

What I want to do is something along the lines of:

for a in alist:
    if a['Resource_group_id'] == '01234829-2041523815431':
        print the Value of 'Name'
        print the Value of 'Billing'

I've found I can do the following, to print the value of 'Name' but that
only works if the 'Resource_group_id' key is the first key in the list and
the 'Name' key is in the second slot.  If each list contained the same
keys, I could probably sort the keys and use [num] to pull back values, but
they don't.

for a in alist:
    if a[0]['Key'] == 'Resource_group_id' and a[0]['Value'] ==
'20172857-152037106154311':
        print a[1]['Value']

There has to be a way to do this but I've been pounding away at this for
hours.  Any help appreciated.  I'm new to Python and not a programmer, so
go easy on me. :)



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