Python has different types of data structures to manage your data efficiently. Lists are simple sequential data, whereas a dictionary is a key-value pair data. Both of them have unique usability and is already been implemented with various helpful methods. Many times, we need to convert the dictionary to a list in Python or vice versa. In this post, we’ll look at all possible methods to do so.
Dictionary to List Conversion can be done in multiple ways. The most efficient way to do it is, calling the helping methods of the dictionary. Some methods like, items(), values(), and keys() are useful in extracting the data from dictionary. Moreover, you can also loop through the dictionary to find individual elements.
Dictionary is a data structure that stores the data as key-value formats. The order of elements is not reserved in the dictionary. When converting the dictionary data to the list, your order may change. Moreover, duplicates are not allowed in the dictionary.
List is a data structure that saves the values sequentially. Lists are termed as arrays in many other programming languages. In Python, lists have flexible lengths, and the elements inside them can be added or removed anytime. Unlike dictionaries, you can have duplicates in the list.
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