dictionary sub-value lookup
Dan Parisien
dan at eevolved.com
Wed Feb 7 12:41:51 EST 2001
Richard wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am kinda new to this whole object orientation thing, so
> there is probably an easy way of doing this, but the
> tutorials etc are sparse.
>
> I have an object M which contains N dictionaries. Inside
> dictionary N, is an identifier, Y, plus various other
> values, eg: Z.... is it possible to find M.Y.Z without
> looping through the whole of M, checking Y each time ?
>
> Since I will have to do a LOT of this, and M may be large,
> I need a fast method.
>
> Ideas/comments etc ?
>
> -Bye
> -Richard
What problem are you trying to solve? There may be simpler ways to do it...
that sounds incredibly complex. You could always have a dictionary that
contains
{"dictionary_names":dict}
and do
M[N].Y.Z
does this help?
Dan
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