Summing into a Dictionary

[tbline]

Hi,

Programming in perl and running through lines in a text file, when wanting to sum the area by a key (repeating) variable I am used to using the syntax:
$Hash{$var1}[0] += $area
And then using a foreach loop to get out the total area for each variable.
What is the translation into python for this?

Thanks

[ghostdog74]

Hi,

Programming in perl and running through lines in a text file, when wanting to sum the area by a key (repeating) variable I am used to using the syntax:
$Hash{$var1}[0] += $area
And then using a foreach loop to get out the total area for each variable.
What is the translation into python for this?

Thanks

myDict[var1][0]+=area
 

[tbline]

myDict[var1][0]+=area
 

That is what I have been trying, however when I do, I get the following error:

myDict[au][0]+=area
KeyError: 5

This is the jist of my code so far:

myDict={}
 
for line in f:
        vals = line.strip('\n').split('|')
        stand_num = vals[0]
        access    = vals[3]
        au        = int(vals[7])
        area      = float(vals[9])
 
 
        if au != 99:
                 myDict[au][0]+=area

What does KeyError:5 mean and how I can fix it?

Thanks

[bvdet]

That is what I have been trying, however when I do, I get the following error:

myDict[au][0]+=area
KeyError: 5

This is the jist of my code so far:

myDict={}

for line in f:
vals = line.strip('\n' ).split('|')
stand_num = vals[0]
access = vals[3]
au = int(vals[7])
area = float(vals[9])


if au != 99:
myDict[au][0]+=area


What does KeyError:5 mean and how I can fix it?

Thanks

myDict does not contain the key 5, therefore the key error. Try this instead:

if myDict.has_key(au):
    myDict[au][0] += area
else:
    myDict[au] = whatever

[bartonc]

That is what I have been trying, however when I do, I get the following error:

myDict[au][0]+=area
KeyError: 5

This is the jist of my code so far:

myDict={}
 
for line in f:
        vals = line.strip('\n').split('|')
        stand_num = vals[0]
        access    = vals[3]
        au        = int(vals[7])
        area      = float(vals[9])
 
 
        if au != 99:
                 myDict[au][0]+=area

What does KeyError:5 mean and how I can fix it?

Thanks

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[elbin]

myDict does not contain the key 5, therefore the key error. Try this instead:

if myDict.has_key(au):
    myDict[au][0] += area
else:
    myDict[au] = whatever

And the 'whatever' should be a list with the area if you're going to use the [0] index:

if myDict.has_key(au):
    myDict[au][0] += area
else:
    myDict[au] = [area]

Or simpler (no index if there will be only one value):

if myDict.has_key(au):
    myDict[au] += area
else:
    myDict[au] = area

OR simpler still ;) :

myDict[au] = myDict.get(au, 0) + area

get() gives you the value of myDict[au], or 0 if it does not exist.