Problem in access the dictionary variable values,when passed as argument

[psbasha]

Hi ,

The below snippet of the code is returing the empty dict,but I would like to get the values in the dict as {1:200,2:300,3:400}.

Could anybody suggest what method I have to use to return the dict values as function argument.

Sample.py
 
class Sample:
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    def Func2(self):
        dataDict2 = {1:200,2:300,3:400}
        return dataDict2
 
    def Func1(self,dataDict):
        dataDict = self.Func2()
if __name__ == '__main__':
 
    dataDict = {}   
    objSample = Sample()
    objSample.Func1(dataDict)
    print dataDict
 
 

Thanks
PSB

[ilikepython]

Hi ,

The below snippet of the code is returing the empty dict,but I would like to get the values in the dict as {1:200,2:300,3:400}.

Could anybody suggest what method I have to use to return the dict values as function argument.

Sample.py
 
class Sample:
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    def Func2(self):
        dataDict2 = {1:200,2:300,3:400}
        return dataDict2
 
    def Func1(self,dataDict):
        dataDict = self.Func2()
if __name__ == '__main__':
 
    dataDict = {}   
    objSample = Sample()
    objSample.Func1(dataDict)
    print dataDict
 
 

Thanks
PSB

Try something like this:

class Sample:
    def __init__(self):
        self.dd = {} 
 
    def func2(self):
        self.dd = {1 : 200, 2 : 300, 3 : 400}
 
    def func1(self):
        return self.dd
 
obj = Sample();
obj.func2()
dd = obj.func1()
 

[bartonc]

Update the dict rather than reassign (much like aList.append()):

class Sample:
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    def Func2(self):
        dataDict2 = {1:200,2:300,3:400}
        return dataDict2
 
    def Func1(self, dd):
        dd.update(self.Func2())
if __name__ == '__main__':
 
    dataDict = {}   
    objSample = Sample()
    objSample.Func1(dataDict)
    print dataDict

[psbasha]

Update the dict rather than reassign (much like aList.append()):

class Sample:
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    def Func2(self):
        dataDict2 = {1:200,2:300,3:400}
        return dataDict2
 
    def Func1(self, dd):
        dd.update(self.Func2())
if __name__ == '__main__':
 
    dataDict = {}   
    objSample = Sample()
    objSample.Func1(dataDict)
    print dataDict

Thanks for the idea.But I need to pass the dict variable as argument for different methods of a class/classes.So it possible to send the dict variable as argument and get it back with the modified or filled elements in the dict variable

Thanks
PSB

[bartonc]

Thanks for the idea.But I need to pass the dict variable as argument for different methods of a class/classes.So it possible to send the dict variable as argument and get it back with the modified or filled elements in the dict variable

Thanks
PSB

It's pass-by-reference so the update thing work the same as

dd[key] = value

and vise versa. I was simply trying to keep your structure in tact.