# looping through list of dictionaries **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [July 1, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/looping-through-list-of-dictionaries/30693 "2019-07-01T20:32:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brian\_Goulet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Brian\_Goulet](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Goulet)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/looping-through-list-of-dictionaries/30693/1 "2019-07-01T20:32:52Z")
my playbook grabs show command output from a cisco switch and then reformats that output into structured data thanks to a parsing script written by someone smarter than me. i’m pretty new to ansible data structures but I believe this data is a list (ios\_vlans) of dictionary objects (vlans) which contains multiple elements, including one that is also a list (ports). here is sample data # Schema Output ---
**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/looping-through-list-of-dictionaries/30693/2 "2019-07-01T21:09:55Z")
with\_items is a parameter for the task not the module debug, so with\_items need to indented at the same level as name and debug. with\_items takes a list, so you need   with\_items: "{{ ios\_vlans.vlans }}" ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Goulet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Brian\_Goulet](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Goulet)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/looping-through-list-of-dictionaries/30693/3 "2019-07-02T13:38:54Z")
> ha! well that was silly. beaten by space characters again. thank you so much Kai.