When creating a list of dictionaries through a loop, I ran into a strange
issue. I'll let the code talk:
>>> l = 'i am a special new list'.split()
>>> t = []
>>> for thing in l:
... t.append({thing: 1})
...
>>> t
[{'i': 1}, {'am': 1}, {'a': 1}, {'special': 1}, {'new': 1}, {'list': 1}]
This is what I expected. {} says to make a dictionary. Thing, not being quoted,
is clearing a variable, which needs to be evaluated and used as the key.
>>> t = []
>>> for thing in l:
... t.append(dict(thing=1))
...
>>> t
[{'thing': 1}, {'thing': 1}, {'thing': 1}, {'thing': 1}, {'thing': 1},
{'thing': 1}]
This was what threw me. Why would the dict() function not evaluate thing? How
can it take it as a literal string without quotes?
Thanks for any insight,
Sam
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