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How to access nested Python dictionary items via a list of keys?
The easiest and most readable way to access nested properties in a Python dict is to use for loop and loop over each item while getting the next value, until the end.
example
def getFromDict(dataDict, mapList): for k in mapList: dataDict = dataDict[k] return dataDict a = { 'foo': 45,'bar': { 'baz': 100,'tru': "Hello" } } print(getFromDict(a, ["bar", "baz"]))
Output
This will give the output −
100
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