[Tutor] [SOLVED] Append sub-key to dictionary

[M. Bashir Al-Noimi]

Thanks Vince ;-)

On 25/05/2010 07:38 م, vince spicer wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:28 PM, M. Bashir Al-Noimi <mbnoimi at gmx.com 
> <mailto:mbnoimi at gmx.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     I'm trying to append a new sub-key to specific dictionary but it
>     replacing the content of parent key instead of add a sub-key!
>
>
>     How I can fix this issue?
>
>     --snippet--
>
>     addressbook = {
>                     'work': {
>                               'Andre': {
>                                        'phone': '22761654',
>                                        'e-mail': '5456646',
>                                        'address': 'Syria, Aleppo',
>                                        'website': 'www.sdff.com  <http://www.sdff.com>'
>                                        }
>                              },
>                      'Friends': {
>                                  'Ahmad': {
>                                           'phone': '34646464',
>                                           'picture': '/home/fiends/wael.png',
>                                           'posts': {
>                                                     'blog': 'http://www.dsfd.com/  <http://www.dsfd.com/>',
>                                                     'newspaper': 'http://news.com/  <http://news.com/>'
>                                                     }
>                                           },
>                                  'Issa': {
>                                           'e-mail': 'asd at dsfdsc.com  <mailto:asd at dsfdsc.com>'
>                                           }
>                                  }
>                     }
>
>     addressbook['Friends'] = {
>                                 'kassem': {
>                                             'address':'Aleppo Street',
>                                             'Country':'Palestine',
>                                             'articles':{
>                                                         'blog':'http://blogger.com  <http://blogger.com>',
>                                                         'news':'http://news.com/  <http://news.com/>'
>                                                         }
>                                             }
>                                 }
>
>
>     -- 
>     Best Regards
>     Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi
>     My Blog:http://mbnoimi.net
>          
>
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>
> You may have better results with:
>
> addressbook['Friends']['kassem"] = {
>                                        'address':'Aleppo Street',
>                                        'Country':'Palestine',
>                                        'articles':{
>                                                    
> 'blog':'http://blogger.com',
>                                                    
> 'news':'http://news.com/'
>                                                    }
>                                        }
>                            }
>
>
> this will create a new key in the Friends dict
>
> Vince

-- 
Best Regards
Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi
My Blog: http://mbnoimi.net

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