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Ideally I'd like to do it with a list comprehension. Something like this

result = [(key, value)for key in dict.keys(), value in dict.values()]

but clearly that isn't the right format. Any suggestions?

EDIT:

This seems like what I want to do, but it doesn't work:

result = [(dict.keys[i], dict.values[i]) for i in range(1, len(dict))]
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As discovered, you don't need to pair keys and values manually — the dictionary already exposes (key, value) pairs that can be turned into a list. For clarity and to avoid shadowing built-ins, use a descriptive variable name (for example freq or counts) instead of dict.

freq = {'apple': 3, 'banana': 2, 'cherry': 5}
pairs = list(freq.items())   # gets a list of (key, value) tuples

If you prefer an explicit comprehension or want to transform values as you build the list:

pairs = [(k, v) for k, v in freq.items()]

To get a deterministic order (useful for "top N" frequency lists), sort the pairs. Example: sort by value descending to get highest counts first.

by_value = sorted(freq.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1], reverse=True)

For the specific word-frequency use-case mentioned in the thread, collections.Counter is a concise, efficient option and returns tuples directly:

from collections import Counter
counts = Counter(text.split())
top = counts.most_common(10)  # list of (word, count) tuples sorted by count desc

Notes and troubleshooting: was right to warn about overwriting built-ins — avoid names like dict or list. Also remember Python version behavior: in Python 3 items() returns a view (convert to list if you need a concrete list), and insertion order is preserved by the language spec in modern versions; if you need sorting independent of insertion, call sorted() explicitly.

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Take a look at the final lines of this code snippet:
http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet216747.html

Thanks for that. Weirdly enough, what I'm doing is actually related to counting word frequencies.

I realized that I can just use .items() (feels silly) :)

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If you are brave enough to ask questions, then you are not silly!

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result = [(key, value)for key in dict.keys(), value in dict.values()]

...

result = [(dict.keys[i], dict.values[i]) for i in range(1, len(dict))]

Just please note that in Python, we use the built-in function dict() to convert certain objects to a dictionary. If you used the above code, you would lose this ability as you're overwriting that built-in function with your list!!

EDIT: Notice how dict is highlighted by the syntax highlighting above like the following built-ins (reserved keywords)

d = {'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':3}
for idx in xrange(15):
    y += my_list[idx]
    if y == 256:
        break
list('123456890')
dict(some_iterable)
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