Split a dictionary into a list of dictionaries

Question

I'm sure this is very easy:

If I have the following:

 mydict = { 'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2', ... , 'keyn': 'valuen' }

How can I end up w/ a list such as:

 result = [ { 'key1': 'value1'}, { 'key2': 'value2' }, ...., 'keyn': 'valuen' }]

Answer 1

I think the easiest way to do this is list comprehension

mydict = { 'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2', ... , 'keyn': 'valuen' }
new_list = [{k: v} for k, v in mydict.iteritems()]

or not so interesting version

map(lambda x, y: {x: y}, mydict.iteritems())

Answer 2

result = [{k: v} for (k, v) in mydict.iteritems()]