[Tutor] Accessing Specific Dictionary items

[Mike Nickey]

Thank you all, I have found the assistance needed and the guidance
here was wonderful.

I needed to add a line in the middle that did a temporary storage for
me before trying to append this to the list. It might not be the most
elegant solution but it works.

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 17:28,  <eire1130 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dictionaries are objects and you access their attributes through keys.
>
> So, let's say I had a dict: d = {'city':'plattsburgh'}
>
> I would thus access the attribute by doing this
>
> d['city']
>
> You can store that value to a variable
>
> Or you can append to a list directly.
>
> l = []
>
> for d in yourdict:
>     l.append(d['city'])
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Nickey <mnickey at gmail.com>
> Sender: tutor-bounces+eire1130=gmail.com at python.org
> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:26:32
> To: ian douglas<ian.douglas at iandouglas.com>
> Cc: <tutor at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Accessing Specific Dictionary items
>
> The input being used is through pygeoip.
> Using this I am pulling the data by IP and from what I am reading this
> populates as a dictionary.
>
> Here is some of the output that I can show currently
> [{'city': 'Buena Park', 'region_name': 'CA', 'area_code': 714},
> {'city': 'Wallingford', 'region_name': 'CT', 'area_code': 203},
> {'city': 'Schenectady', 'region_name': 'NY', 'area_code': 518},
> {'city': 'Athens', 'region_name': '35'}]
>
> I'd like to have an output similar to this:
> 'Buena Park', 'Wallingford', 'Schenectady','Athens' pulled by the
> "city" keys that are used in the returns. I think the easiest way to
> approach this would be simply to use the .append and populate a list
> but I don't know how to pull an item by key value from the dictionary
> returns.
>
> I hope this helps clear some confusion and thanks in advance.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 15:14, ian douglas <ian.douglas at iandouglas.com> wrote:
>> On 08/01/2011 03:05 PM, Mike Nickey wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to access and use specific items within a dictionary that
>>> is returned but am having issues in doing so.
>>> [{'city': 'Sunnyvale', 'region_name': 'CA', 'area_code': 408,
>>> 'metro_code': 'Santa Clara, CA', 'country_name': 'United States'}]
>>>
>>> How can I populate a list of many different returns so that I have a
>>> list that contains all the cities and in line with the item that is
>>> referenced.
>>>
>>> The first step is to populate the list unsorted as it needs to be in
>>> correlation to the item that it came from.
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Could you give us examples of what you want the list to look like? It will
>> help us direct you to an answer.
>>
>
>
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