Want to reduce steps of an operation with dictionaries

[Carl Banks]

Steve Holden wrote:
> pretoriano_2001 at hotmail.com wrote:
> > Hello:
> > I have next dictionaries:
> > a={'a':0, 'b':1, 'c':2, 'd':3}
> > b={'a':0, 'c':1, 'd':2, 'e':3}
> > I want to put in a new dictionary named c all the keys that are in b
> > and re-sequence the values. The result I want is:
> > c={'a':0, 'c':1, 'd':2}
> > How can I do this with one line of instruction?
> >
> You can't. Dictionaries aren't ordered collections.
>
> > I attempted the next but the output is not the expected:
> > c=dict([(k,v) for v,k in enumerate(a) if b.has_key(k)])
> > erroneously (for me) gets:
> > {'a': 0, 'c': 2, 'd': 3}
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
>
> In Python {'a':0, 'c':1, 'd':2} == {'a': 0, 'c': 2, 'd': 3}

Careful there, chief.  The Python interpreter disagrees:

>>> {'a':0, 'c':1, 'd':2} == {'a': 0, 'c': 2, 'd': 3}
False

I inferred that by "re-sequencing", the OP meant the keys in the new
dict were to be associated with a new range of integer values (probably
specifically the key's index in a sorted list of keys).  It was an
unfortunate choice of words, as sequencing has a pretty specific
meaning in Python.


Carl Banks