Manually accessing the items in the list

This is a straightforward method, where the key from which the values have to be extracted is passed along with the index for a specific value.

Syntax:

dictionary_name[key][index]

Example: direct indexing

Python3




#  Creating dictionary which contains lists
country = {
    "India": ["Delhi", "Maharashtra", "Haryana",
              "Uttar Pradesh", "Himachal Pradesh"],
    "Japan": ["Hokkaido", "Chubu", "Tohoku", "Shikoku"],
    "United States": ["New York", "Texas", "Indiana",
                      "New Jersey", "Hawaii", "Alaska"]
}
 
print(country["India"])
print(country["India"][0])
print(country["India"][1])
print(country["United States"][3])
print(country['Japan'][2])


Output :

[‘Delhi’, ‘Maharashtra’, ‘Haryana’, ‘Uttar Pradesh’, ‘Himachal Pradesh’]

Delhi

Maharashtra

New Jersey

Tohoku

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