Do things with lists in nested dictionaries

nested_dicts_lists.py

import sys
import os

import itertools

things = {
    'thing_1' : {
    'country':'France',
    'people':'authors',
    'people_names':['Stendhal', 'Flaubert']
    },
    'thing_2' : {
    'country':'Ireland',
    'people':'authors',
    'people_names':['Yeats', 'Joyce']
    }
}
for things_name, things_dict in things.iteritems():
    print '%s:' % things_dict['country']
    for the_authors in things_dict['people_names']:
        print '\t%s' % the_authors