Iterating this particular step

pets.items()

its items no item and if you want to loop through the vaules and keys in a dic you could use this

pets = {'name':'Ernie', 'animal':'dog', 'breed':'Pug', 'age':2}
for item, pets1 in pets.items():
    print(pets1)
    print(item)

i hope this would help you

Hey Edward,

Regular lists only contain values, so we can iterate through them with a simple for loop, like in your code above:

for value in pets:
    print(value)

If you were using a list then that would be exactly right.

However, dictionaries have both keys and values. This requires a different loop structure. The correct structure for dictionaries is:

for key, value in pets.items():
    print(key)
    print(value)

In the same way that a regular for loop passes each indexed value to your variable (value, in the first example I gave), the .items() method tells a dictionary to pass each key to the variable before the comma (",") in our for-loop and each value to the variable after the comma. By default, in Python, when you don't call the .items() method, the dictionary only iterates through the keys it contains and not their corresponding values.

I hope that's helpful!