appending key-value pairs to a dict

[rbt]

I know how to setup an empty list and loop thru something... appending
to the list on each loop... how does this work with dicts?

I'm looping thru a list of files and I want to put the file's name and
its sha hash into a dict on each loop.

Many thanks,

rbt

[Peter Hansen]

rbt wrote:

I know how to setup an empty list and loop thru something... appending
to the list on each loop... how does this work with dicts?

I'm looping thru a list of files and I want to put the file's name and
its sha hash into a dict on each loop.

Whereas with a list you would call "append" in the loop, with a
dictionary you simply use an indexed-assignment type of access:

mydict = {}
for filename in some_list_of_filenames:
hash = sha.sha(open(filename).read()).hexdigest() # or whatever
mydict[filename] = hash

-Peter

[Brian Beck]

rbt wrote:

I know how to setup an empty list and loop thru something... appending
to the list on each loop... how does this work with dicts?

I'm looping thru a list of files and I want to put the file's name and
its sha hash into a dict on each loop.

Like so:

d = {}
for filename in files:
d[sha_func(filename)] = filename
Or like so:

d = dict([(sha_func(filename), filename) for filename in files])

--
Brian Beck
Adventurer of the First Order

[James Stroud]

On Friday 20 May 2005 01:04 pm, rbt wrote:

I know how to setup an empty list and loop thru something... appending
to the list on each loop... how does this work with dicts?

I'm looping thru a list of files and I want to put the file's name and
its sha hash into a dict on each loop.

Many thanks,

rbt

Simple assignment.

adict[filename] = an_sha_hash

--
James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095

http://www.jamesstroud.com/

[Roy Smith]

rbt <rb*@athop1.ath.vt.edu> wrote:

I know how to setup an empty list and loop thru something... appending
to the list on each loop... how does this work with dicts?

I'm looping thru a list of files and I want to put the file's name and
its sha hash into a dict on each loop.

You just assign values to keys. If the key doesn't exist, it's
created automagically. You want something like this:

shaDict = {}
for fileName in fileNameList:
hash = generateShaHash (fileName)
shaDict[hash] = fileName

[rbt]

Peter Hansen wrote:

rbt wrote:

I know how to setup an empty list and loop thru something... appending
to the list on each loop... how does this work with dicts?

I'm looping thru a list of files and I want to put the file's name and
its sha hash into a dict on each loop.

Whereas with a list you would call "append" in the loop, with a
dictionary you simply use an indexed-assignment type of access:

mydict = {}
for filename in some_list_of_filenames:
hash = sha.sha(open(filename).read()).hexdigest() # or whatever
mydict[filename] = hash

-Peter

Thanks guys... that works great.