Walk through dictionary keys?

[Emile van Sebille]

I'm not sure when or how long this has been in, but the cvs version of 
dict's has a popitem method that looks like it does what you want.

d = {1:11,2:22,3:33,4:44}
for i in xrange(len(d)):
     print d.popitem()

HTH,

Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

Carsten Gaebler wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Is there a way of 'walking' through the keys of a dictionary? If I have
> a large dictionary I'd like to prevent 
> 
> for key in d.keys():
>     do_something
> 
> because this makes a copy of all the keys. I'm looking for something
> like Perl's "each".
> 
> Regards
> Carsten.