[Tutor] User Made Dictionaries
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Tue Mar 29 00:51:28 CEST 2011
michael scott wrote:
> I was thinking something like this for my general flow (this is all just fake
> code trying to represent my thought process)
>
> mold = { "name" : " ",
> "age" : " ",
> "charm_point" : " ",
> "profile_pic" : " ",
> "pic_quantity" : 0 ,
> "bio" : " "}
>
>
> chiaki = copy.copy(mold)
> #have the user fill in the data here
> natalie = copy.copy(mold)
> #have the user fill in the data here
> # etc...
>
>
> But my question is how do I repeatedly automate new names for the dictionaries?
> Like how do I get the user to create the dictionary name (chiaki, natalie,
> etc...)?
You don't.
Instead of something like this:
chiaki = {...}
natalie = {...}
...
You have a second dictionary, keyed by the names:
girls = {'chiaki': {...},
'natalie': {...},
...
}
Something like this:
girls = {}
while True:
template = copy.copy(mold)
name = raw_input("What's the name of an actress?") # See below.
if name == "exit":
break # Exit the loop.
#have the user fill in rest of the data here
girls[name] = template
Or you could use a real database, like sqlite, or even a *real* database.
If you are using Python 3 or better, change raw_input to input.
--
Steven
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