Return a parent dictionary if substring inside a nested dictionary value exist?

Question

How to return "key_three" Only after searching for a substring "Iron Man" inside the nested somedict. The objective is if "Iron man" is found return all of the entire parent dictionary type value of "key_three" [key] [dictionary having ->** ] i.e. including key_three_one:[values], key_three_two:[values] and the third dictionary-element {}.

somedict = [
               {
                  "anyKey":1,
                  "key_two":2,
                  **{            #key_three/value of key_three is nothing but a dictionary.
                    key_three_one: "spiderman",
                    key_three_two:"superman",
                    "key_three_three":{
                         "from_asguard" : "is not Iron Man:batman"
                    }
                  }**
    }]

I have already gone through these links : 1. Python return dictionary 2. Iterate through a nested Dictionary and Sub Dictionary in Python 3. Loop through all nested dictionary values? 4. Python function return dictionary?.

So visiting all the links, you must have written some code. Can you please share your efforts, to see that you tried to come to a solution on your own. — AnsFourtyTwo, Dec 09 '19 at 08:53
`code` `# n = len(somedict)` x = 0 y = 0 # for x in range(n): # x +=1 `for eachvalue in somedict[:][:]: x+=1 #print(eachvalue) for key,value in eachvalue[0].items(): #print(key,value) if 'Iron Man:' in str(value) : print(value) y+=1 print("\n\n\n", x) print("\n\n\n", y)` IGNORE X and Y — s dev, Dec 09 '19 at 12:23
Do not use comments for code, please. Edit your question instead. Ideally, your question should be self-contained, thus contain all the required information to answer your question. — AnsFourtyTwo, Dec 09 '19 at 15:53

Shijith · Answer 1 · 2019-12-09T09:02:51.057

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iterate through items of the dictionary inside your somedict list,

for key,value in somedict[0].items():
    if 'Iron Man' in str(value):
        print(key, value)

>>>key_three {'inside_key_three': {'from_asguard': 'is not Iron Man'}}

or you can use list comprehension:

[{k:v} for k,v in somedict[0].items() if 'Iron Man' in str(v)]

>>>[{'key_three': {'inside_key_three': {'from_asguard': 'is not Iron Man'}}}]

edited Dec 09 '19 at 09:02

answered Dec 09 '19 at 08:56

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This helps but not what i was expecting, still looking for answers. – s dev Dec 09 '19 at 13:37

Return a parent dictionary if substring inside a nested dictionary value exist?

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