If Dict Contains a particular key

[Steven Howe]

Carsten Haese wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 18:28 +0100, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
>   
>> Hello Guys,
>>
>>  
>>
>> I’m Looking to build a quick if/else statement that checks a
>> dictionary for a key like follows.
>>
>>  
>>
>> If myDict contains ThisKey:
>>
>>                 Do this...
>>
>> Else
>>
>>                 Do that...
>>     
>
> I'm pretty sure you'll find the answer to this question somewhere in
> http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html
>
> -Carsten
>
>
>   
or try:
thedict = { 'a': 1, 'b':2, 'c':3 }
if 'a' in thedict.keys():
    print thedict['a']