Python dictionary items() Method

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Description

The method items() returns a list of dict's (key, value) tuple pairs

Syntax

Following is the syntax for items() method:

dict.items()

Return Value

This method returns a list of tuple pairs.

Example

The following example shows the usage of items() method.

#!/usr/bin/python

dict = {'Name': 'Zara', 'Age': 7}

print "Value : %s" %  dict.items()

# after running:
Value : [('Age', 7), ('Name', 'Zara')]

对字典按键排序，用元组列表的形式返回，同时使用lambda函数来进行：

 sorted(dict.items(), key=lambda dict:dict[0])

 返回值：[('Age', 7), ('Name', 'Zara')]