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The keys() method outputs a dict_keys object that presents a list of a dictionary's keys.
To convert Python Dictionary keys to List, you can use dict. keys() method which returns a dict_keys object. This object can be iterated, and if you pass it to list() constructor, it returns a list object with dictionary keys as elements.
Python dictionary | values() values() is an inbuilt method in Python programming language that returns a view object. The view object contains the values of the dictionary, as a list. If you use the type() method on the return value, you get “dict_values object”.
keys() method in Python Dictionary, returns a view object that displays a list of all the keys in the dictionary in order of insertion.
Clearly you're passing in d.keys() to your shuffle function. Probably this was written with python2.x (when d.keys() returned a list). With python3.x, d.keys() returns a dict_keys object which behaves a lot more like a set than a list. As such, it can't be indexed.
The solution is to pass list(d.keys()) (or simply list(d)) to shuffle.
You're passing the result of somedict.keys() to the function. In Python 3, dict.keys doesn't return a list, but a set-like object that represents a view of the dictionary's keys and (being set-like) doesn't support indexing.
To fix the problem, use list(somedict.keys()) to collect the keys, and work with that.
Convert an iterable to a list may have a cost. Instead, to get the the first item, you can use:
next(iter(keys))
Or, if you want to iterate over all items, you can use:
items = iter(keys)
while True:
try:
item = next(items)
except StopIteration as e:
pass # finish
In Python 2 dict.keys() return a list, whereas in Python 3 it returns a generator.
You could only iterate over it's values else you may have to explicitly convert it to a list i.e. pass it to a list function.
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