How to enter multiple, similar, dictionaries?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2023-12-11, Chris Green via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
> Is there a way to abbreviate the following code somehow?
>
>     lv = {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'1', 'name':'Leisure volts'}
>     sv = {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'0', 'name':'Starter volts'}
>     la = {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'2', 'name':'Leisure Amps'}
>     sa = {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'3', 'name':'Starter Amps'}
>     bv = {'dev':'adc2', 'input':0, 'name':'BowProp Volts'}
>
> It's effectively a 'table' with columns named 'dev', 'input' and
> 'name' and I want to access the values of the table using the variable
> name.

Named tuples stored in a dictionary or list?

> I could, obviously, store the data in a database (sqlite), I have some
> similar data in a database already but the above sort of format in
> Python source is more human readable and accessible.  I'm just looking
> for a less laborious way of entering it really.