I have a Python dict question where I struggle with using the typical tutorials I can find. In my debugger I see the following dict (call it instance_dict in my code)

{
<segment_display.displayScore1>: {'show_43.segment_display_player.displayScore1': True},
<segment_display.displayScore2>: {'show_43.segment_display_player.displayScore2': True},
<segment_display.displayPlayer>: {'show_43.segment_display_player.displayPlayer': True},
<segment_display.displayScore3>: {'show_43.segment_display_player.displayScore3': True},
<segment_display.displayScore4>: {'show_43.segment_display_player.displayScore4': True},
<segment_display.displayBall>: {'show_43.segment_display_player.displayBall': True},
<segment_display.neoSegTopLine>: {},
<segment_display.neoSegBottomLine>: {}
}

Am I reading it correctly that for example <segment_display.displayScore1> is the key, and that in this case the key is an object and not a string?

If that is correct, how do I understand the value {'show_43.segment_display_player.displayScore1': True} is the value another dict object?

Now I run a for loop for a in instance_dict.items():

Now I want to get the value for each item. I thought I can do

instance_dict.get(a) in my for loop to get the value -but that dumps. Of course I could do for a, b in .... But why is my code dumping?