Dict lookup shortcut?

[Daniel Ellison]

M. Clift wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Can someone tell me is there a shorthand version to do this?
> 
> l1 = ['n1', 'n3', 'n1'...'n23'...etc...]
> 
> Names = {'n1':'Cuthbert','n2' :'Grub','n3' :'Dibble' etc...}
> 
> for name in l1:
>     print Names[name],
> 
> Rather than listing all the name+numbers keys in the dictionary can these
> keys be shortened somehow into one key and a range?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> M
> 
> 

I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but you should probably be doing 
this instead:

names = {'n1':'Cuthbert', 'n2':'Grub', 'n3':'Dibble'}

for key in names.keys():
     print names[key],

No need for the initial list. Alternatively, you could just have all the 
names in a list to start with and iterate over that:

names = ['Cuthbert', 'Grub', 'Dibble']

for name in names:
     print name,

Dan

NB: all code untested