More newbie help required with dictionaries

[loial]

The following code only returns the last row(22) added to the
machines dictionary.
presumably I need some additional syntax to add rows to the dictionary
rather than overwrite.

What do I need to add?

machinekey = 11

machines = { machinekey:[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] }

machinekey = 22

machines = { machinekey:[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] }

for machine in machines.keys():
   print machine

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Re: More newbie help required with dictionaries

[Christoph Haas]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:43:37AM -0700, loial wrote:
 The following code only returns the last row(22) added to the
 machines dictionary.
 presumably I need some additional syntax to add rows to the dictionary
 rather than overwrite.
 
 What do I need to add?
 
 machinekey = 11
 
 machines = { machinekey:[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] }
 
 machinekey = 22
 
 machines = { machinekey:[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] }

You redefine the machines dictionary here. So it just contains one
entry. What you mean:

machines.update({ machinekey:[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] })

Or:

machines[machinekey] = [0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]

 Christoph

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Re: More newbie help required with dictionaries

[loial]

machines[machinekey] = [0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]

is what I needed...thanks



On 16 Apr, 15:07, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:43:37AM -0700, loial wrote:
  The following code only returns the last row(22) added to the
  machines dictionary.
  presumably I need some additional syntax to add rows to the dictionary
  rather than overwrite.

  What do I need to add?

  machinekey = 11

  machines = { machinekey:[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] }

  machinekey = 22

  machines = { machinekey:[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] }

 You redefine the machines dictionary here. So it just contains one
 entry. What you mean:

 machines.update({ machinekey:[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] })

 Or:

 machines[machinekey] = [0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]

  Christoph


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