Python dict values() method returns the view object that displays a list of all the values in the dictionary.
Python Dictionary values()
Python dictionary values() is a built-in function that returns a list of all the values available in a given dictionary. The values() method returns a view object that displays a list of all the values in the dictionary. The values() method doesn’t take any parameters.
Syntax
dictionary.values()
The values(do not take any parameters returns values.
Return values
The values() method returns a view object which contains a list of values of each key.
Programming example
# app.py
# Declaring dictionary
student_marks = {'Debasis': 89, 'Shouvik': 97, 'Rohit': 74, 'Shubh': 76}
# printing the dictionay
print(student_marks)
# Printing values of all keys
print(student_marks.values())
# printing total marks of all students
print(sum(student_marks.values()))
Output
{'Debasis': 89, 'Shouvik': 97, 'Rohit': 74, 'Shubh': 76}
dict_values([89, 97, 74, 76])
336
In the above program, we have declared a dictionary containing some students’ marks, and we have printed the dictionary.
After that, we have printed all the marks using the g values() method, which returns a list of marks. After that, we have printed the sum of all the marks of all students.
How values() works when a dictionary is modified
See the following code.
# app.py
apps = { 'facebook': 1, 'instagram': 2, 'messenger': 3 }
values = apps.values()
print('Original items:', values)
# delete an item from dictionary
del[apps['messenger']]
print('Updated items:', values)
Output
pyt python3 app.py Original items: dict_values([1, 2, 3]) Updated items: dict_values([1, 2])
Conclusion
Python’s efficient key/value hash table structure is called a “dict”. The contents of a dict can be written as a series of key:value pairs within braces { }, e.g. dict = {key1:value1, key2:value2, … }. The “empty dict” is just an empty pair of curly braces {}.
The dict values() method returns a view object that displays a list of all the values in the dictionary.
That’s it for this tutorial.
