Dictionary question

[Brian Elmegaard]

John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> writes:

> 2. Put spaces around operators -- in general, RTFStyleGuide
>    http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008

I din't know it. Thanks.

> Only you know what *really* meaningful names you should be using.

I have better names in my running code.

> mykey = a + c
> newvalue = x + e
> lastdict = dictlist[-1]
> if mykey not in lastdict or lastdict[mykey] < newvalue:
>      lastdict[mykey] = newvalue

Better, thanks.

> 4. Add some comments about what you are trying to achieve. What is the
>    point of keeping the two dicts in a list??? Can't you give them
>    names, like rawdatadict and maxdict?

It's a dynamic programming problem, so this will contain as many dicts
as hours in the year.

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