map-like function on dict values?

[Raymond Hettinger]

How about:

dict( map( lambda k,v: (k,f(v)), d.items() ) )

or

map( d.__setitem__, d.keys, map(f, d.values) )


Raymond

"Huaiyu Zhu" <huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to do this
>
> for k, v in dict.items():
>     dict[k] = f(v)
>
> without involving a Python for loop?  I'd imagine that a function
> implemented in C could speed things up quite a bit.  Something like
> either of the following
>
> mapvalue(f, dict)
> dict.mapvalue(f)
>
> Huaiyu