[Tutor] assigning values to dictionary

[jeremiah]

Awesome. Thanks!

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 11:07 -0700, Steve Willoughby wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:02:34AM -0700, jeremiah wrote:
> > i think i figured it out. The result is that I have a dictionary
> within
> > a dictionary..i think.
> >
> > for example:
> >
> > {'mcdonalds': {'hamburger': 'big mac','drink':'coke'}}
> >
> > How would I go about itterating through this?
> 
> Depends on how you want to iterate through it (what
> in the end you're trying to accomplish).  One example:
> 
> for major_key in my_dict:
>   print "The stuff stored under", major_key, "is:"
>   for minor_key in my_dict[major_key]:
>     print "(%s) %s=%s" % (major_key, minor_key,
> my_dict[major_key][minor_key])
> 
> Another possibility might be:
> 
> for major_key, subdict in my_dict.iteritems():
>   print "The stuff stored under", major_key, "is:"
>   for minor_key, value in subdict.iteritems():
>     print "(%s) %s=%s" % (major_key, minor_key, value)
> 
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > JJ
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 10:39 -0700, Steve Willoughby wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:29:13AM -0700, jeremiah wrote:
> > > > I have a list of dictionary values that i am looping through
> that
> > > upon
> > > > each iteration I would like to assign these values to a new
> > > dictionary
> > > > name.
> > > >
> > > > For example...
> > > >
> > > > item=0
> > > > for line in some_dict:
> > > >       ## some how assign dict values to new name
> > > >       "new_dict_name_"+item = line
> > >
> > > You could use eval, I suppose, but are you sure that
> > > making up new dictionary names on the fly like that is
> > > the solution that best fits the problem as opposed to
> > > having, say, a set of objects or an overall dictionary
> > > of dictionaries you add to?  What's the bigger context
> > > this fits into?  Although you *can* do this sort of thing,
> > > it quite often ends up not being the most elegant thing
> > > to do.
> > >
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