What is the best way to isolate a value in a dictionary

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I got the following dictionary:

    freelancers = {'name': 'freelancing Shop', 'brian': 70, 'black knight': 20, 
                   'biccus diccus': 100, 'grim reaper': 500, 'minstrel': -15}

I want my for statement to loop trough all the dictionary..and if a value that contains the word 'shop' is found. Printing it. Is there any way to do it??.

this is clearly not working, values could be string, int, etc.

for key, value in freelancers.items():
    if 'Shop' in value:
        print(f"Welcome to {value}")

Use a proper class to represent the structure you're shoehorning into a dictionary. :-) — erip, May 26 '20 at 13:32
@mkrieger1 it does somehow...a bit too technical for me at the moment since i'm learning Python..but a good read none the less — , May 26 '20 at 13:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 26 '20 at 13:30

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You need to add a type check

for key, value in freelancers.items():
    if isinstance(value, str) and 'Shop' in value:
        print(f"Welcome to {value}")

answered May 26 '20 at 13:30

zanuda

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