Tuple list from dict in Python
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How can I obtain a list of key-value tuples from a dict in Python?
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
For Python 2.x only (thanks Alex):
yourdict = {}
# ...
items = yourdict.items()
See http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#dict.items for details.
For Python 3.x only (taken from Alex's answer):
yourdict = {}
# ...
items = list(yourdict.items())
Solution 2 - Python
For a list of of tuples:
my_dict.items()
If all you're doing is iterating over the items, however, it is often preferable to use dict.iteritems(), which is more memory efficient because it returns only one item at a time, rather than all items at once:
for key,value in my_dict.iteritems():
#do stuff
Solution 3 - Python
In Python 2.*, thedict.items(), as in @Andrew's answer. In Python 3.*, list(thedict.items()) (since there items is just an iterable view, not a list, you need to call list on it explicitly if you need exactly a list).
Solution 4 - Python
Converting from dict to list is made easy in Python. Three examples:
d = {'a': 'Arthur', 'b': 'Belling'}
d.items() [('a', 'Arthur'), ('b', 'Belling')]
d.keys() ['a', 'b']
d.values() ['Arthur', 'Belling']
as seen in a previous answer, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1679384/converting-python-dictionary-to-list.
Solution 5 - Python
For Python > 2.5:
a = {'1' : 10, '2' : 20 }
list(a.itervalues())