> Hi, > Slightly different take on an old problem, I have a list of dicts, I need to > build one dict from this based on two values from each dict in the list. Each > of the dicts in the list have similar key names, but values of course differ. > > > [{'a': 'xx', 'b': 'yy', 'c': 'zz'}, {'a': 'dd', 'b': 'ee', 'c': 'ff'}] > > > { 'xx': 'zz', 'dd': 'ff'} > > > Anyone have insight on how to pull this off? > > > Thanks! > jlc >
listy = [{'a':'xx', 'b':'yy', 'c':'zz'}, {'a':'dd', 'b':'ee','c':'ff'}] kryten = {} keys = [] for l in listy: for key in l.keys(): if key not in keys: keys.append(key) for key in keys: kryten[key] = '' for l in listy: kryten[key] += l.has_key(key) and l[key] or '' print kryten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list