On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:00:17 -0700, Gnarlodious wrote: > What is the best way (Python 3) to loop through dict keys, examine the > string, change them if needed, and save the changes to the same dict? > > So for input like this: > {'Mobile': 'string', 'context': '<malicious code>', 'order': '7', > 'time': 'True'} > > I want to booleanize 'True', turn '7' into an integer, escape > '<malicious code>', and ignore 'string'. > > Any elegant Python way to do this? > > -- Gnarlie
How about data = { 'Mobile': 'string', 'context': '<malicious code>', 'order': '7', 'time': 'True'} types={'Mobile':str,'context':str,'order':int,'time':bool} for k,v in data.items(): data[k] = types[k](v) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list