Get name of dictionary

Question

I find myself needing to iterate over a list made of dictionaries and I need, for every iteration, the name of which dictionary I\'m iterating on.

Here\'s an MWE (the co

Answer 1

Here's my solution for a descriptive error message.

def dict_key_needed(dictionary,key,msg='dictionary'):
    try:
        value = dictionary[key]
        return value
    except KeyError:
         raise KeyError(f"{msg} is missing key '{key}'")