I am trying to iterate over a dictionary that looks like this: account_data = {"a": "44196397", "b": "2545086098", "c": "210623431", "d": "1374059147440820231", "e": "972970759416111104", "f": "1060627757812641792", "g": "1368361032796700674", "h": "910899153772916736", "i": "887748030304329728", "j": "1381341090", "k": "2735504155", "l": "150324112", } The goal is to use each ID to scrape some data, therefor I got a method that takes the corresponding userID and gets the data from it. At first I had a method for every ID in the dict, but now I want to change it so that I got one method which iterates over the dictionary, takes one ID at a time and makes the API request, if finished the next is made and so on. The problem is I can't iterate over the dictionary, I always just access the first one in here. I am relatively new to Python since I mainly used Java. Maybe dictionary is the wrong data structure for this task? Any help appreciated. Edit: This is my old code to iterate over the dictionary: def iterate_over_dict(): for key, value in account_data.items(): return value I then continue with using the id in this function: def get_latest_data(): chosen_id = iterate_over_dict() print('id: ', chosen_id) # get my tweets tweets = get_tweets_from_user_id(chosen_id) # get tweet_id of latest tweet tweet_id = tweets.id.values[0] # get tweet_text of latest tweet tweets = tweets.text.values[0] # check if new tweet - if true -> check if contains data = check_for_new_tweet(tweet_id, tweets) if data is not None: print("_________") print('1 ', data) But I always only use the first one. I think in Java it wouldn't be a problem for me since I can just use an index to iterate from 0 to n, but is there something similar for dictionaries? I also want to run the get_latest_data method every time a new ID is chosen from the dict Continue reading...
