List of dictionaries: use key-value instead of index?

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colors = [
    {'colorkey': 'red', 'status': 'on', 'registered': 'yes'},
    {'colorkey': 'blue', 'status': 'off', 'registered': 'no'},
    {'colorkey': 'green', 'status': 'on', 'registered': 'yes'},
    ]

color_to_find = 'red'
for element in colors:
    # element is a dict
    color = element.get('colorcode')
    if color == color_to_find:
        # result found
        # stop the iteration if you want to have only one result.
        # otherwise you must walk through the complete list
        # if you break out of the lopp
        # you'll only get the first hit
        break
else:
    pass
    # result not found, for loop finished completely