unnecessary-dict-index-lookup (PLR1733)

Derived from the Pylint linter.

Fix is always available.

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What it does

Checks for key-based dict accesses during .items() iterations.

Why is this bad?

When iterating over a dict via .items(), the current value is already available alongside its key. Using the key to look up the value is unnecessary.

Example

FRUITS = {"apple": 1, "orange": 10, "berry": 22}

for fruit_name, fruit_count in FRUITS.items():
    print(FRUITS[fruit_name])

Use instead:

FRUITS = {"apple": 1, "orange": 10, "berry": 22}

for fruit_name, fruit_count in FRUITS.items():
    print(fruit_count)