Turning a list of dictionaries into a list of lists

Question

I know this is possible with list comprehension but I can\'t seem to figure it out. Currently I have a list of dictionaries like so:

 [ {\'field1\': \'a\', \'fie         


        

Answer 1

Just return the dict.values() lists in Python 2, or convert the dictionary view to a list in Python 3:

[d.values() for d in list_of_dicts]  # Python 2
[list(d.values()) for d in list_of_dicts]  # Python 3

Note that the values are not going to be in any specific order, because dictionaries are not ordered. If you expected them to be in a given order you'd have to add a sorting step.