How To Enumerate Items In A Dictionary With Enumerate( ) In Python

As the title suggests I wanted to enumerate the key and its values (without brackets) in python. I tried the following code : example_dict = {'left':'<','right':'>','up':'^',

Solution 1:

In this case enumerate returns (index, (key, value)), so you just need to change your unpacking to for i, (j, a), though personally I would use k, v instead of j, a in an example.

for i, (k, v) in enumerate(example_dict.items()):
    print(i, k, v)

BTW, don't use a comprehension for side effects; just use a for-loop.

Solution 2:

As in Alexandre's comment, the code would work like this:

for (i, (name, sym)) in enumerate(example_dict.items()):
    print(i, name, sym)

A comment about style: while comprehension is really neat when computing values, using it for a loop of printing would work, but would obfuscate the intent of your code, making it less readable.