dict_values to string in python

I simply want to convert an object that looks like this:

dict_values(['baf0242b-d7fc-49d7-aada-220344969fb6']) 

That I got from doing this:

dictionary.values() 

To a simple string: 'baf0242b-d7fc-49d7-aada-220344969fb6'

How can I?

3 Answers

Say you have a dictionary:

d = {'key': 'baf0242b-d7fc-49d7-aada-220344969fb6'} 

The result you see is from running the following:

d.values() 

To get what you want, convert it to a list and get the first item on it:

d = {'key': 'baf0242b-d7fc-49d7-aada-220344969fb6'} result = list(d.values())[0] 

list(your_dict.values())[0]

As @rdas mentioned, dict_values is a view in Python 3+, and the first index will return your string.

If you are getting the first value, or the only value in your case. This might be a bit more memory efficient:

next(iter(d.values())))