How to access key from python dict? [duplicate]

Question

How to access key 'Description' from dict below?

{text:u'Description': u'ABC',text:u'Balance': u'35,402,678.51',text:u'Credit': u'10,000.00'}

Tried using mydict.get('Description') & mydict['Description']. please provide your suggestions, i am new to python.

The official Tutorial in the Python Documentation should be a good starting point. This will help you create a valid data structure - your "dict" is not valid Python. — Christian König
– Christian König, Commented Jul 17, 2017 at 8:11

lejoy · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-17 08:14:04Z

“text:” is redundant, it can be left out.

dic = {u'Description': u'ABC', u'Balance': u'35,402,678.51', u'Credit': u'10,000.00'}

Mike Scotty · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-17 08:18:54Z

In your example, all your keys have a strange text: prefix, that result in an invalid dictionary (or rather in invalid syntax).

Otherwise your attempts are correct:

mydict = {u'Description': u'ABC', u'Balance': u'35,402,678.51', u'Credit': u'10,000.00'} v = mydict.get('Description') print(v) # ABC

By the way, if you get an error, you should add the complete traceback to your question, this will make it easier for us to help you.

@kabanus I'm not talking about u, I'm talking about text:u, which (at least in my Python 3) is invalid syntax.
Ahh, I see. I think it's an IDE thing, and he just pasted from my terminal.

usr_11 · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-17 08:32:06Z

Got the solution. error was due to "text" prefix. eliminated it using (myxlrdcell).value

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