how to get dictionary elements names as list

Question

I have below dictionary and I need to extract "red" and "blue" values as list, there may be a lot more values than only these 2.

input:

js = {
    "accounts": {
        "red": {
            "client_id": "123",
            "client_secret": "123",
        },
        "blue": {
            "client_id": "123",
            "client_secret": "123",
        }
    }
}

expected output:

["red","blue"]

See this: [`dict.keys`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=dict%20keys#dict.keys) — gribvirus74, Mar 10 '21 at 17:23

Justin · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-10T17:46:54.710

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It's actually pretty simple. There's no need to use dict.keys() at all...

js = {
    "accounts": {
        "red": {
            "client_id": "123",
            "client_secret": "123",
        },
        "blue": {
            "client_id": "123",
            "client_secret": "123",
        },
        "green": {
            "client_id": "123",
            "client_secret": "123",
        }
    }
}

print (list(js["accounts"]))

Output:

['red', 'blue', 'green']

edited Mar 10 '21 at 17:46

answered Mar 10 '21 at 17:37

Justin

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you don't need the `.keys` method at all, you can just remove it and use `list(js['aacounts']))` – juanpa.arrivillaga Mar 10 '21 at 17:38

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