[Tutor] assigning values to dictionary

[Steve Willoughby]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:02:34AM -0700, jeremiah wrote:
> i think i figured it out. The result is that I have a dictionary within
> a dictionary..i think.
> 
> for example:
> 
> {'mcdonalds': {'hamburger': 'big mac','drink':'coke'}}
> 
> How would I go about itterating through this?

Depends on how you want to iterate through it (what
in the end you're trying to accomplish).  One example:

for major_key in my_dict:
  print "The stuff stored under", major_key, "is:"
  for minor_key in my_dict[major_key]:
    print "(%s) %s=%s" % (major_key, minor_key, my_dict[major_key][minor_key])

Another possibility might be:

for major_key, subdict in my_dict.iteritems():
  print "The stuff stored under", major_key, "is:"
  for minor_key, value in subdict.iteritems():
    print "(%s) %s=%s" % (major_key, minor_key, value)


> 
> Thanks,
> JJ
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 10:39 -0700, Steve Willoughby wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:29:13AM -0700, jeremiah wrote:
> > > I have a list of dictionary values that i am looping through that
> > upon
> > > each iteration I would like to assign these values to a new
> > dictionary
> > > name.
> > >
> > > For example...
> > >
> > > item=0
> > > for line in some_dict:
> > >       ## some how assign dict values to new name
> > >       "new_dict_name_"+item = line
> > 
> > You could use eval, I suppose, but are you sure that
> > making up new dictionary names on the fly like that is
> > the solution that best fits the problem as opposed to
> > having, say, a set of objects or an overall dictionary
> > of dictionaries you add to?  What's the bigger context
> > this fits into?  Although you *can* do this sort of thing,
> > it quite often ends up not being the most elegant thing
> > to do.
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > 
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