accessing a key in python dict code example
Example 1: python dictionary access value by key
datadict = [{'Name': 'John', 'Age': 38, 'City': 'Boston'},
{'Name': 'Sara', 'Age': 47, 'City': 'Charlotte'},
{'Name': 'Peter', 'Age': 63, 'City': 'London'},
{'Name': 'Cecilia', 'Age': 28, 'City': 'Memphis'}]
def getDictVal(listofdic, name, retrieve):
for item in listofdic:
if item.get('Name')==name:
return item.get(retrieve)
getDictVal(datadict, 'Sara', 'City')
df = pd.DataFrame({'Name': ['John', 'Sara','Peter','Cecilia'],
'Age': [38, 47,63,28],
'City':['Boston', 'Charlotte','London','Memphis']})
datadict = df.to_dict('records')
Example 2: how to get element from dictionary python
dict = {'Name': 'Zara', 'Age': 7, 'Class': 'First'}
dict['Age'] = 8;
dict['School'] = "DPS School";
print "dict['Age']: ", dict['Age']
print "dict['School']: ", dict['School']