How to print dictionary when value is an object (Python)

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myDict = {name1: object1, name2: object2, etc....}

*The objects look like this:

Color: Blue, Flies: True, etc...

EDIT: included above dictionary so you can see what I'm working with.

While researching how to print the preceding dictionary in a nice, readable fashion, I tried the following code:

for key in myDict:
        print (key)
        for value in myDict[key]:
            print (value, ":", myDict[key][value])

This would work, HOWEVER, my "value"'s are all OBJECTS and it says that it can't iterate (which makes sense). I just want to know how to make it work the way it would if the value was a list or something that was iterable.

My desired output format is something like this:

Item1:              --> Key (it's the name of the object)
Color: Blue         --> Value (this is object[0])
Flies: True         --> Value (this is object[1])
etc....

Thanks!

**Most** objects have `.__dict__` dictionary in them. In your case: you would just replace `myDict[key]` with `myDict[key].__dict__` — UltraInstinct, Jul 07 '16 at 20:30
@SuperSaiyan Thanks. I knew there was the .__dict__ I just wasn't quite sure how to use it. I'll try it out. — AmericanMade, Jul 07 '16 at 20:34
Possible duplicate of [How to get instance variables in Python?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/109087/how-to-get-instance-variables-in-python) — UltraInstinct, Jul 07 '16 at 20:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 07 '16 at 20:31

You could just catch the TypeError that occurs when trying to iterate a noniterable (might want to make exceptions for strings though).

try:
    for value in myDict[key]:
        print (value, ":", myDict[key][value])
except TypeError:
   print value

How to print dictionary when value is an object (Python)

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