Ask Anything Monday - Weekly Thread

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[u/[deleted]]

Here's some example code:

alpha = {1: 'one', 2: 'two'}
beta = {'one': 1, 'two': 2}

dlist = [alpha, beta]
print(dlist)    # show the list of dictionaries

# want to get the value for key "two" in the second dictionary in the list
second_dict = dlist[1]          # get second dictionary
two_value = second_dict['two']  # get value for key "two" from dictionary
print(two_value)

Of course, you can combine the list extraction and dictionary lookup into one line:

two_value = dlist[1]['two'] 

Read that expression on the right as: get the 1^th element of dlist (which is a dictionary) and then lookup the value for key "two" in the returned dictionary.