Dear Python friend
I have a nested data dictonary in the below format and I need to store 1000 of entries which are in teh below format >>> X['emp_01']['salary3'] = dict(sex="f", status="single", exp="4", grade="A",payment="200") >>> X['emp_01']['salary4'] = dict(sex="f", status="single", exp="4", grade="A",payment="400") >>> X['emp_01']['salary5'] = dict(sex="f", status="single", exp="4", grade="A",payment="400") I only thing thats is changing is payment and I have payment_list as a list [100,200,400,500]: The value salary3 ,salary4,salary4 is to be generated in the loop . Iam trying to optimize the above code , by looping as shown below >>> X = {} >>> X['emp_01'] ={} >>> for salary in range(len(payment_list)): ... X['emp_01'][salary] = dict(sex="f", status="single", exp="4", grade="A",payment=payment_list[salary]) ... >>> X {'emp_01': {0: {'grade': 'A', 'status': 'single', 'payment': 100, 'exp': '4', 'sex': 'f'}, 1: {'grade': 'A', 'status': 'single', 'payment': 200, 'exp': '4', 'sex': 'f'}, 2: {'grade': 'A', 'status': 'single', 'payment': 400, 'exp': '4', 'sex': 'f'}, 3: {'grade': 'A', 'status': 'single', 'payment': 500, 'exp': '4', 'sex': 'f'}}} >>> Any other suggestion , Please let me know I am on python 2.7 and Linux Regards, Ganesh -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list