Returning a result from 3 items in a list

[Cai Gengyang]

Programming is indeed tough ... I wish I had picked up this skill much earlier in life.

But true, I will try to research my questions more in depth before posting here. 

My goal eventually is to build a successful YCombinator based web-based startup. 




On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 12:59:36 AM UTC+8, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 9:29:30 AM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> > On 24/11/2015 14:07, Denis McMahon wrote:
> > > On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:04:56 -0800, Cai Gengyang wrote:
> > >
> > >> Here's a dictionary with 3 values :
> > >>
> > >> results = {
> > >>    "gengyang": 14,
> > >>    "ensheng": 13, "jordan": 12
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> How do I define a function that takes the last of the 3 items in that
> > >> list and returns Jordan's results i.e. (12) ?
> > >
> > > You open a web browser and google for "python dictionary"
> > >
> > 
> > Ooh steady on old chap, surely you should have fitted the bib, done the 
> > spoon feeding and then changed the nappy?  That appears to me the 
> > preferred way of doing things nowadays on c.l.py, rather than bluntly 
> > telling people not to be so bloody lazy.
> 
> Mark and Denis, if you are having a hard time with newcomers to this list,
> perhaps you need to find another list to read?
> 
> Yes, Cai Gengyang could do more research before asking questions.  But
> your response does nothing to improve the situation.  It's just snark
> and bile, and does not exemplify the Python community's culture.
> 
> > My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
> > what you can do for our language.
> 
> What you can do for our language is put a better foot forward.
> 
> --Ned.