How to enter multiple, similar, dictionaries?

[Piergiorgio Sartor]

On 11/12/2023 16.16, Chris Green 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.
> 
> 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.
> 

Maybe a dict of dicts:

tx = {lv: {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'1', 'name':'Leisure volts'},
       sv: {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'0', 'name':'Starter volts'},
       ...}

Might have one or two advantages.

bye,

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piergiorgio