Extract values by key from a nested dictionary

Question

Given this nested dictionary, how could I print all the "phone" values using a for loop?

people = {
    'Alice': {
        'phone': '2341',
        'addr': '87 Eastlake Court'
        },

    'Beth': {
        'phone': '9102',
        'addr': '563 Hartford Drive'
        },

    'Randy': {
        'phone': '4563',
        'addr': '93 SW 43rd'
        }

Answer 1

for d in people.values():
    print d['phone']

Answer 2

Using a list comprehension

>>> [people[i]['phone'] for i in people]
['9102', '2341', '4563']

Or if you'd like to use a for loop.

l = []
for person in people:
    l.append(people[person]['phone'])

>>> l
['9102', '2341', '4563']

Answer 3

Loop over the values and then use get() method, if you want to handle the missing keys, or a simple indexing to access the nested values. Also, for the sake of optimization you can do the whole process in a list comprehension :

>>> [val.get('phone') for val in people.values()]
['4563', '9102', '2341']

Answer 4

Readable code is more valuable than optimized code. If the time for the operation to complete doesn't matter.