Edit: changing code as the issue came up first somewhere else in my code

I'm trying to figure out how to use my dictionary from one function in another one and the other answers on here haven't helped.

The overall goal is to print the key and value just entered into the dictionary named contacts but contacts can only be defined inside init\_phonebook

```
def init_phonebook():
contacts = {}
while True:
    choice = print_menu()
    if choice == 1:
        list_contacts(contacts)
    elif choice == 2:
        add_contact(contacts)
    elif choice == 3:
        find_contact(contacts)
    elif choice == 4:
        edit_contact(contacts)
    elif choice == 5:
        delete_contact(contacts)
    elif choice == 6:
        delete_all(contacts)
    elif choice == 7:
        thanks()

```

Down here the issue is that .keys and .values don't work as it's not recognizing contacts as a dictionary. I've tried changing the parameter to something else but it doesn't work that way either.

```
def add_contact(contacts):
    phone_number = input('Please enter a phone number: ')
    name = input('What would you like to save the name as?: ')
    if name in contacts:
        print('This contact already exists in your phonebook')
    elif name not in contacts:
        contacts[name] = phone_number
        print('Contact successfully saved')
        print('Your updated phonebook is shown below')
        for c in contacts:
            print('{} --> {}'.format(contacts.keys(c), contacts.values(c)))
    print()

```

the error message I get is:

> 
> File "c:\Users\myname\Desktop\VS Code Projects\contact\_list.py", line 54, in add\_contact
> print('{} --> {}'.format(contacts.keys(c), contacts.values(c)))
> TypeError: dict.keys() takes no arguments (1 given)
> 
> 
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