[Tutor] Question on dictionary

[Joel Goldstick]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:
>
>> i wrote a code like this
>>
>> for i in res:
>>     dict = {}
>>     dict['id_desc'] = str(i['id'])+','+str(i['description'])

A minor revision for the right side of above:
   ",".join(str(i['id'], str(i['description']))

>>     i.update(dict)
>>
>> is there any other simple methods to achieve this?
>>
>
> Can you avoid the intermediate "dict" and just assign to i['id_desc']
> directly?
>
>
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