Question

say that the following is our code:

d = {"Happy":"Clam", "Sad":"Panda"}
for i in d:
    print(i)

now print(i) will print out just the keys, but how could I change it so that it printed the values?

Answer 1

A Python dict has a number of methods available for getting a list of the keys, values, or both.

To answer your question, you can use d.values() to get a list of the values only:

d = {"Happy":"Clam", "Sad":"Panda"}
for v in d.values():
   print(v)

Output:

Clam
Panda

The items() method is particularly useful, though, so should be mentioned.

d = {"Happy":"Clam", "Sad":"Panda"}
for k, v in d.items():
   print(k, v)

will print:

Happy Clam
Sad Panda

A warning about the ordering of items from the documentation:

CPython implementation detail: Keys and values are listed in an
arbitrary order which is non-random, varies across Python
implementations, and depends on the dictionary’s history of insertions
and deletions.