[Tutor] assigning values to dictionary

[jeremiah]

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?

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.
> 
> --
> Steve Willoughby    |  Using billion-dollar satellites
> steve at alchemy.com   |  to hunt for Tupperware.
> 
> 
> 


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