# Jinja accessing local dictionary with key as variable from loop

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/jinja-accessing-local-dictionary-with-key-as-variable-from-loop/14844>\
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**Created:** [March 24, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/jinja-accessing-local-dictionary-with-key-as-variable-from-loop/14844 "2014-03-24T18:35:14Z")\
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Hi,

the first line provides a dictionary of actors (names). The values are a list of movies.  
In a loop over a movie and there over each actor I want to know in how many movies  
an actor plays a role. I’m not able to access the dictionary …

… I tried actors[actor] as well as actors.get(actor) but

{% set actors = page.statistic.getActorsAsDictionary() %}  
…  
{{ actors.get(actor)|length }} =\> yells about NoneType  
{{ actors[actor]|length }} =\> always 0

I tried it this way:  
{% set actors = {“Dennis Quaid”: [1]} %}  
{{ actors[actor]|length }} =\> always 0

It DOES work for:  
{% set actors = {“Dennis Quaid”: [1234]} %}  
{{ actors[“Dennis Quaid”]|length }} =\> is “1”

What did I wrong?

Regards,  
Thomas