About dict.items() method...`

#1

if we have a dictionary named a
suppose a is like this:-
a = {

"name" : "Bihan",
"marks" : 99,
"sunjects" : ["Eng", "Math"],
"friends" : {
    
    "Sourav" : "Android",
    "Sachin" : "IOS"
    
}

}
Now if I do a.items() I will get each key-value pair in a tuple… a tuple for each key-value pair. but as a.keys() is iterable then I just want to know whats the data type of b is, where b = a.items() … Where does the Each of the tuples containing a key-value pair reside? Are they inside a list or all the tuples are inside a tuple???
If i do :- type(b) then its showing :-
dict_items([(‘name’, ‘Bihan’), (‘marks’, 99), (‘sunjects’, [‘Eng’, ‘Math’]), (‘friends’, {‘Sourav’: ‘Android’, ‘Sachin’: ‘IOS’})])…
What should I assume ?? is it b is a tuple containing a list which contains all the tuples ??? or something else???

#2

hey buddy ,
dict_items is a separate class which is a inherited from List .
this is the reason you see that on type(b

you don’t have to assume , why do you want to assume something ?

a list of tuples

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#3

That’s what exactly I wanted to know… Thanx…
dict_items([(‘name’, ‘Bihan’), (‘marks’, 99), (‘sunjects’, [‘Eng’, ‘Math’]), (‘friends’, {‘Sourav’: ‘Android’, ‘Sachin’: ‘IOS’})])…
I actually got confused with the first bracket () given after dict_items…

#4

Yeah that confuses sometimes, no issues.

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