Iterate through dictionary key and value The Pythonic Way

In Python 2.x you can iterate through a dictionary using:
for key, value in my_dict.iteritems():

Python 3: there is no more iteritems, items() achieve the same result which is returning an iterator - see below for more explanations.

for key, value in my_dict.items():
     print(key,value)

For Python 2.x

• dict.items(): Return a copy of the dictionary’s list of (key, value) pairs.
• dict.iteritems(): Return an iterator over the dictionary’s (key, value) pairs.

Some may say iterating through a large dictionary is not a good idea in the first place and is not Pythonic. 

See Python Anti-Pattern https://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/performance/not_using_iteritems_to_iterate_large_dict.html

Python doc has some suggestion to help handling legacy code in Python 2.x

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0469/

try:
    dict.iteritems
except AttributeError:
    # Python 3
    def itervalues(d):
        return iter(d.values())
    def iteritems(d):
        return iter(d.items())
else:
    # Python 2
    def itervalues(d):
        return d.itervalues()
    def iteritems(d):
        return d.iteritems()