Question

I have a dictionary with following structure :

{1: {'message': u'test', 'user': u'user1'},
2: {'message': u'test2', 'user': u'user2'}}

I’d like to create a string containing values from the inner dictionary in this form :

string = "<span>test1</span><span>user1</span><br />
          <span>test2</span>..."

I’ve tried everything from dict.keys(), dict.values(), (k,v) for k, v in dict but I cannot make it work. What is the proper way ?

Answer 1

>>> d={1: {'message': u'test', 'user': u'user1'}, 2: {'message': u'test2', 'user': u'user2'}}

>>> ''.join('<span>%(message)s</span><span>%(user)s</span><br/>' % v for k,v in sorted(d.items()))
u'<span>test</span><span>user1</span><br/><span>test2</span><span>user2</span><br/>'