[Tutor] getting and using information dict objects

[Mitya Sirenef]

On 02/23/2013 09:40 PM, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> For the sake of those who finds  this thread -- the date / value pairs
 > can be printed by the following:
 >
 > import fred
 >
 > fred.key(fredKey)
 >
 > gnpObvs = fred.observations('GNPCA')
 >
 > for i in range(1, len(gnpObvs['observations']['observation'])):
 > print gnpObvs['observations']['observation'][i]['date'],
 > gnpObvs['observations']['observation'][i]['value']
 >
 > mj
 >


You can do this in a simpler way (in python 2.x):

observation = gnpObvs["observation"]["observation"]

for obsdict in observation.values()[1:]:
     print obsdict["date"]


if you need the 'i' counter, you can do:

for i, obsdict in enumerate(observation.values())[1:]:
     print obsdict["date"]

HTH, -m


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