wormwood_3 wrote:
Hmm,
looked through the latest docs, in the sections on dictionary types,
don't see examples that point to this case well. Can you link to what
you had in mind?
2.1 Built-in Functions
...
dict( [mapping-or-sequence])
...
these all return a dictionary equal to {"one": 2, "two": 3}:
...
dict( two=3)
From: bob
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To: wormwood_3
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Sent: Wednesday,
January 21, 2009 11:02:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor]
dict() versus {}
wormwood_3 wrote:
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?
I suggest you look dict up in the Python documentation. There it shows
the result you got as an example. When in doubt read the manual.
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