[Tutor] A replacement for a "for" loop

[Terry Carroll]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Scott Oertel wrote:

> John Fouhy wrote:
> > On 29/08/07, Trey Keown <trey at opmstech.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> attrs={u'title': u'example window title', u'name': u'SELF', u'icon':
> >> u'e.ico'}
> >> keys = ['name','title','icon']
> >> for (tag, val) in attrs.iteritems():
> >>     for key in keys:
> >>         print val
> >>
> >> the first "for" tag causes the dictionary (attrs) to have its keys called
> >> "tag" and its value called "val". The second "for" loop causes the
> >> dictionary keys to be read in a certain order. How could I take away the
> >> first "for" loop and replace it with something else to do the same general
> >> function?
> >>     
> >
> > for key in keys:
> >   print 'Attribute %s has value %s' % (key, attrs[key])
> >
> >   
> Why even have the keys variable at all..
> 
> for key in attrs:
>     print 'Attribute %s has value %s' % (key, attrs[key])

In a prior email thread, the OP indicated that he needed to process the 
keys in that particular order; and it's not really amenable to any sort.