Looping through a list of dictionaries

[KingCoffee]

I am trying to use a for loop to loop through this list of dictionaries and print all the information about each person neatly. This is what I have so far.

sarah = {
    'age': 50,
    'job': 'mcdonalds',
    'city': 'atlanta',
    }
steven = {
    'age': 24,
    'job': 'target',
    'city': 'new york',
    }
john = {
    'age': 20,
    'job': 'walmart',
    'city': 'new york',
    }

people = [sarah, steven, john]

How do I write a loop that will go through the list and print the details of each person neatly? Thanks

 

[menator01]

I recommend formatting the dict something like this:

people = {
    'sarah': {
        'age': 50,
        'job': 'mcdonalds',
        'city': 'atlanta',
        },
    'steven': {
        'age': 24,
        'job': 'target',
        'city': 'new york',
        },
    'john':{
        'age': 20,
        'job': 'walmart',
        'city': 'new york',
        }
}



for person, name in people.items():
    print(f'{person}:')
    for field, data in name.items():
        print(f'{field}: {data}')
    print('\n')

output

sarah:
age: 50
job: mcdonalds
city: atlanta


steven:
age: 24
job: target
city: new york


john:
age: 20
job: walmart
city: new york

If you want to go with the way you have, I would add a name key, value pair to the dicts.

sarah = {
    'name': 'sarah',
    'age': 50,
    'job': 'mcdonalds',
    'city': 'atlanta',
    }
steven = {
    'name': 'steven',
    'age': 24,
    'job': 'target',
    'city': 'new york',
    }
john = {
    'name': 'john',
    'age': 20,
    'job': 'walmart',
    'city': 'new york',
    }

people = [sarah, steven, john]

for i, person in enumerate(people):
    for field, data in people[I].items():
        print(f'{field}: {data}')
    print('\n')

 

[menator01]

Just wanted to throw one more in using tabulate module

from tabulate import tabulate

sarah = {
    'name': 'sarah',
    'age': 50,
    'job': 'mcdonalds',
    'city': 'atlanta',
    }

steven = {
    'name': 'steven',
    'age': 24,
    'job': 'target',
    'city': 'new york',
    }

john = {
    'name': 'john',
    'age': 20,
    'job': 'walmart',
    'city': 'new york',
    }

headers = {'name':'Name', 'age':'Age', 'job':'Job', 'city':'City'}
people = [sarah, steven, john]


print(tabulate(people, headers=headers, tablefmt='pretty'))

Output

+--------+-----+-----------+----------+
|  Name  | Age |    Job    |   City   |
+--------+-----+-----------+----------+
| sarah  | 50  | mcdonalds | atlanta  |
| steven | 24  |  target   | new york |
|  john  | 20  |  walmart  | new york |
+--------+-----+-----------+----------+