I have a dictionary called 'myjson' that contains a list of dictionaries, indexed by the column names of a tab-delimited spreadsheet. Each row of the spreadsheet is a dictionary, with the keys corresponding to the columns of the spreadsheet and the values corresponding to the entries in the particular row. 

Simplified ex:

```
{'name':'Sam', 'DoB': 5/23/2000'}
{'name':'Jon', 'DoB': 5/10/2000'}

```

I need to access the name "column" or "set of values" (not sure how to refer to them)?

How do I do this?
Had a lot of trouble, trying 

`myjson[0].itervalues()` gives me all the values

but `myjson[0][name]` doesn't work...

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ADDING TO THIS:

I'm trying to parse a string containing a name and a degree. I have a long list of these. Some contain no degrees, some contain one, and some contain multiple. 

Ex strings:

```
Sam da Man J.D.
Green Eggs Jr. Ed.M.
Argle Bargle Sr. MA
Cersei Lannister M.A. Ph.D.

```

As far as I can tell, the degrees come in the following patterns:

```
x.x.
x.x.x.
x.x.xx.
x.xx.
xx.x.
x.xxx.
two caps (ex: 'MA')

```

How would I parse this? I have been reading regex and think that .match() might be the way to go, but I don't understand how to have a list of patterns to match.

Thanks!