Help accessing elements of list of dictionaries

[Milfredo]

Ok. Hopefully this will be better.

my_button1 = Button(root, text = "Load Race Files", width = 15, command = load_racefiles) 
my_button1.place(x=443, y=150)

def load_racefiles() :
	global Race_date

	count = 0
	master_race_file = []
	rows = 100
	columns = 100
	horse_array = [0 for i in range(rows)] 
	file_name = StringVar()
	f_name = StringVar()
	
	fd =    open("dirpath", "r") 
	file_dir = (fd.read())
	fd.close()
	os.chdir(file_dir)
	for f in os.listdir(file_dir): 
		file_name, file_ext = os.path.splitext(f)
		f_name = file_name + file_ext
		file_name = file_name.strip()[3:]
		line_counter = 0
		if file_name == Race_date and file_ext == ".jcp":
			with open(f_name, "r") as csv_file:
				csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file)
				
				for line in csv_reader:

                     h = {'track' : line[0],
                     'horse_name' : line[44]
                          }
                    master_race_file.append(h ) 
					
				my_labeldone= Label( text ="Downloading Complete", fg= "black", font = ("sans_serif" , 16)).place(x=500, y=500)

This all works. Now I need to access the dictionaries to see if the track name and the race date selected by the user previous to load_files function is called are equal so I can put that line in a separate smaller list so I can then manipulate the data.

I hope this is easier to deal with.