Creating Unique Dictionary Variables from List

[Greg Corradini]

Hello All,
I'm attempting to create multiple dictionaries at once, each with unique
variable names. The number of dictionaries i need to create depends on the
length of a list, which was returned from a previous function.
The pseudo code for this problem would be:

returnedlist = [x,y,z]
count = 0
for i in returnedlist:
if count < len(returnedlist):
# then create a dictionary (beginning with variable dic) for each i
with a unique name such that
# my unique name would be dic + count

Any ideas about this?
Greg
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[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Greg Corradini a écrit :

Hello All,
I'm attempting to create multiple dictionaries at once, each with unique
variable names. The number of dictionaries i need to create depends on the
length of a list, which was returned from a previous function.
The pseudo code for this problem would be:

returnedlist = [x,y,z]
count = 0
for i in returnedlist:
if count < len(returnedlist):
# then create a dictionary (beginning with variable dic) for each i
with a unique name such that
# my unique name would be dic + count

Any ideas about this?

Yes : use a dict to store your dicts:

returnedlist = [x,y,z]
dicts = dict()
for num, item in enumerate(returnedlist):
dicts['dict%s' % num] = dict()

[Greg Corradini]

Bruno,
Your help is much appreciated. I will give this a try tomorrow morning and
get back on how it works.
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

Greg Corradini a écrit :

>Hello All,
I'm attempting to create multiple dictionaries at once, each with unique
variable names. The number of dictionaries i need to create depends on
the
length of a list, which was returned from a previous function.
The pseudo code for this problem would be:

returnedlist = [x,y,z]
count = 0
for i in returnedlist:
if count < len(returnedlist):
# then create a dictionary (beginning with variable dic) for each
i
with a unique name such that
# my unique name would be dic + count

Any ideas about this?

Yes : use a dict to store your dicts:

returnedlist = [x,y,z]
dicts = dict()
for num, item in enumerate(returnedlist):
dicts['dict%s' % num] = dict()
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[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Greg Corradini a écrit :

Bruno,
Your help is much appreciated.

Then give thanks to Dennis too !-)

I will give this a try tomorrow morning and
get back on how it works.

Don't worry, it just works - and it's the idiomatic solution to the
problem you described.

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:03:20 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

Greg Corradini a écrit :

>Hello All,
I'm attempting to create multiple dictionaries at once, each with unique
variable names. The number of dictionaries i need to create depends on the
length of a list, which was returned from a previous function.
The pseudo code for this problem would be:

returnedlist = [x,y,z]
count = 0
for i in returnedlist:
if count < len(returnedlist):
# then create a dictionary (beginning with variable dic) for each i
with a unique name such that
# my unique name would be dic + count

Any ideas about this?

Yes : use a dict to store your dicts:

returnedlist = [x,y,z]
dicts = dict()
for num, item in enumerate(returnedlist):
dicts['dict%s' % num] = dict()

Given that num is unique each time around the loop, what do you gain by
using 'dictN' for the key instead of just N (=num)?

returnedlist = [x,y,z]
dicts = {}
for num, item in enumerate(returnedlist):
# presumably you would use item somewhere
dicts[num] = {item: None}

And that suggests that storing the dicts in a dict may be unnecessary --
just put them in a list:

returnedlist = [x,y,z]
dicts = [None] * len(returnedlist)
for num, item in enumerate(returnedlist):
dicts[num] = {item: None}

--
Steven.

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Steven D'Aprano a écrit :

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:03:20 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

>>Greg Corradini a écrit :

>>>Hello All,
I'm attempting to create multiple dictionaries at once, each with unique
variable names. The number of dictionaries i need to create depends on the
length of a list, which was returned from a previous function.
The pseudo code for this problem would be:

returnedlist = [x,y,z]
count = 0
for i in returnedlist:
if count < len(returnedlist):
# then create a dictionary (beginning with variable dic) for each i
with a unique name such that
# my unique name would be dic + count

Any ideas about this?

Yes : use a dict to store your dicts:

returnedlist = [x,y,z]
dicts = dict()
for num, item in enumerate(returnedlist):
dicts['dict%s' % num] = dict()

Given that num is unique each time around the loop, what do you gain by
using 'dictN' for the key instead of just N (=num)?

The OP wanted such names, that's all.