dict.values() doesn't return a list as expected

Question

I'm trying to get values from my dictionary here

for elem in set(sample_txt):

       d = {elem:sample_txt.count(elem)}

print(d.values())

d.values() should return a list of values:

The methods dict. keys() and dict. values() return lists of the keys or values explicitly. There's also an items() which returns a list of (key, value) tuples, which is the most efficient way to examine all the key value data in the dictionary. from developers.google.com

So I should get something like ['a', 'b', 'etc']. However in my example I get:

type(d.values()) ---> <class 'dict_values'>

What's wrong?

Answer 1

The quote you posted is related to python2, where indeed it returned list. In python3 you need to cast it by yourself list(d.values())