How to iterate throuhg dictionary

[Steve Holden]

"Mark Robinson" <m.1.robinson at herts.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> I just had a quick play with that, and I can't see any difference
> between your example verbatum and simply print d. How does pprint work
> and (I assume it stands for pretty print or something) how should it look?
>

As always, the fine manual is an excellent guide. Since you don't appear to
have one handy, here are a few examples to whet your appetite.

>>> import pprint
>>> d = {1: ['a', 'b', (1,2,3,4), ['e','f', 'g']],
...  2: "J Random User",
...  3: ('tuple', ('with', ('lots', ('of', 'nesting'))))
...  }
>>> pprint.pprint(d)
{1: ['a', 'b', (1, 2, 3, 4), ['e', 'f', 'g']],
 2: 'J Random User',
 3: ('tuple', ('with', ('lots', ('of', 'nesting'))))}
>>> pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=5, width=60)
>>> pp.pprint(d)
{    1: ['a', 'b', (1, 2, 3, 4), ['e', 'f', 'g']],
     2: 'J Random User',
     3: ('tuple', ('with', ('lots', ('of', 'nesting'))))}
>>> for k in d.keys():
...  pp.pprint(d[k])
...
('tuple', ('with', ('lots', ('of', 'nesting'))))
'J Random User'
['a', 'b', (1, 2, 3, 4), ['e', 'f', 'g']]
>>> pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=5, width=20)
>>> pp.pprint(d)
{    1: [    'a',
             'b',
             (    1,
                  2,
                  3,
                  4),
             [    'e',
                  'f',
                  'g']],
     2: 'J Random User',
     3: (    'tuple',
             (    'with',
                  (    'lots',
                       (    'of',
                            'nesting'))))}
>>> for k in d.keys():
...  pp.pprint(d[k])
...
(    'tuple',
     (    'with',
          (    'lots',
               (    'of',
                    'nesting'))))
'J Random User'
[    'a',
     'b',
     (1, 2, 3, 4),
     [    'e',
          'f',
          'g']]
>>>

regards
 Steve
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