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Find all occurrences of a key in nested python dictionaries
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find_items_in_dict_by_key.py
def gen_dict_extract(node, kv):
if isinstance(node, list):
for i in node:
for x in gen_dict_extract(i, kv):
yield x
elif isinstance(node, dict):
if kv in node:
yield node[kv]
for j in node.values():
for x in gen_dict_extract(j, kv):
yield x
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