Jon Moore wrote: > Kent > > Thanks! I have not come accross string formatting yet, but I can see how > the for statement works. > > How would I modify this to just print either the values or keys?
Use for key in pairs.iterkeys(): or for value in pairs.itervalues(): and change the print statement appropriately. This page shows the operations available on a dict: http://docs.python.org/lib/typesmapping.html Kent > > Jon > > On 26/01/06, *Kent Johnson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Jon Moore wrote: > > Hi > > > > Is there anyway to print informtation from dictionaries better > than this?: > > > > >>> pairs = {"Jon Moore": "Tony Moore", > > "Simon Nightingale": "John Nightingale", > > "David Willett": "Bernard Willet", > > "John Jackson": "Stuart Jackson", > > "James Southey": "Richard Southey", > > "William Forsythe": "Shaun Forsythe"} > > >>> print pairs.keys() > > ['David Willett', 'Jon Moore', 'John Jackson', 'Simon Nightingale', > > 'James Southey', 'William Forsythe'] > > >>> > > > > Is there no way to make it a nice list as I want to print the > keys and > > values next to each other in a list such as: > > Of course there is :-) > >>> for father, son in pairs.iteritems(): > ... print '%-20s %s' % (father, son) > ... > David Willett Bernard Willet > Jon Moore Tony Moore > John Jackson Stuart Jackson > Simon Nightingale John Nightingale > James Southey Richard Southey > William Forsythe Shaun Forsythe > > pairs.iteritems() iterates over key, value pairs. The string formatting > operations are very handy for formatted output. > http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html > > Kent > > > > > Jon Moore Tony Moore > > Simon Nightingale John Nightingale > > David Willett Bernard Willet > > John Jackson Stuart Jackson > > James Southey Richard Southey > > William Forsythe Shaun Forsythe > > > > For anyone who is wondering, it is to show father/son pairs. Next > is to > > add grandfathers *eek*. > > -- > > Best Regards > > > > Jon Moore > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org <mailto:Tutor@python.org> > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor> > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org <mailto:Tutor@python.org> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor> > > > > > -- > Best Regards > > Jon Moore _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
