[Tutor] updating a dictionary

[Alan Gauld]

On 20/02/15 17:56, Chris Stinemetz wrote:
> I am getting closer. I think I have figured out the logic. I just have a
> quick question. How do you access key:values in a nested dictionary?
>
> MOL02997_C': [{'2': '0', '7': '0', '8': '0', '9': '0'}]}
>
> say I want to access the key:value 8:0
>
> print dict['MOL02997_C']['8'] doesn't seem to work.

Look closer. The inner dictionary is inside a list [...].

try

print dict['MOL02997_C'][0]['8']


If that works then try to figure out where the extra list
is coming from and eliminate it.

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