[Tutor] How to get the keys of a dict inside a dict. ValueError: too many values to unpack

[Steve Willoughby]

On 07-Aug-11 09:17, Steve Willoughby wrote:

> First of all, that's not a dict. It's just a tuple of strings.
> so, when you say:
>
>> #loop through and get the keys of each
>> for k,v in x:
>
> You'll get one iteration, where k=the first string and v=the second.
> However, you ignore k and v in all the code that follows, so I'm really
> confused what you're trying to do here.

I just noticed I glossed over a key point, for that to work you'd need x 
to be a sequence of such tuples.  As it stands there, you'll get an 
error because each element of x is a single string, so it can't pull two 
values out of each of them.

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