I have a series of dictionaries which each contain the same keys but their values are different i.e Age in dictionary 1 = 2, Age in dictionary 2 = 4 etc etc but they are broadly identical in structure.
what I would like to do is to randomly select one of these dictionaries and then assign specific values with the dictionary to variables. i.e python randomly chooses Dictionary 1 and then I then want to fill the dictAge variable with the age value from Dictionary 1.
import random
dictList = ['myDict', 'otherDict']
mydict = {
'age' : 10,
'other': "dummy data"
}
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.
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randomDict = random.choice(dictList)
dictAge = randomDict['age']
print(dictAge)
In the case of the code above what should happen is:
randomDict is assigned a random value from the distList variable (at the top). This sets which dictionary's values will be used going forward.
I next want the dictAge variable to then be assigned the age value from the selected dictionary. In this case (as mydict is was the only dictionary available) it should be assigned the age value of 10.
The error I am getting is:
TypeError: string indices must be integers
I know this is such a common error but my brain can't quite work out what the best solution is.
(Disclaimer: I haven't used python in ages so I know I am doing something really obviously silly but I can't quite work out what to do).
Right now, you are not actually using the definition of your dicts.
This is because dictList is comprised of strings: ['myDict', 'otherDict'].
So, when doing randomDict = random.choice(dictList), randomDict will either be the string 'myDict', or the string 'otherDict'.
Then you are doing randomDict['age'], which means you are trying to slice a string, with a string. As the error suggests, this can't be done and indices can only be ints.
What you want to do, is move the definition of the dictList to be after the definitions of your dicts, and include references to the dicts themselves, not strings. Something like:
mydict = {
'age' : 10,
'other': "dummy data"
}
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.
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dictList = [myDict, otherDict]
In the following piece of code:
dictAge = randomDict['age']
You are trying to index the name of dictionary variable (a string) returned by random.choice function.
To make it work you would need to do it using locals:
locals()[randomDict]['age']
or rather correct the dictList to contain the dictionaries instead of their names:
dictList = [myDict, otherDict]
In the latter case please note that myDict and otherDict should be declared before dictList.
Related
how to make a Multidimensional Dictionary with multiple keys and value and how to print its keys and values?
from this format:
main_dictionary= { Mainkey: {keyA: value
keyB: value
keyC: value
}}
I tried to do it but it gives me an error in the manufacturer. here is my code
car_dict[manufacturer] [type]= [( sedan, hatchback, sports)]
Here is my error:
File "E:/Programming Study/testupdate.py", line 19, in campany
car_dict[manufacturer] [type]= [( sedan, hatchback, sports)]
KeyError: 'Nissan'
And my printing code is:
for manufacuted_by, type,sedan,hatchback, sports in cabuyao_dict[bgy]:
print("Manufacturer Name:", manufacuted_by)
print('-' * 120)
print("Car type:", type)
print("Sedan:", sedan)
print("Hatchback:", hatchback)
print("Sports:", sports)
Thank you! I'm new in Python.
I think you have a slight misunderstanding of how a dict works, and how to "call back" the values inside of it.
Let's make two examples for how to create your data-structure:
car_dict = {}
car_dict["Nissan"] = {"types": ["sedan", "hatchback", "sports"]}
print(car_dict) # Output: {'Nissan': {'types': ['sedan', 'hatchback', 'sports']}}
from collections import defaultdict
car_dict2 = defaultdict(dict)
car_dict2["Nissan"]["types"] = ["sedan", "hatchback", "sports"]
print(car_dict2) # Output: defaultdict(<class 'dict'>, {'Nissan': {'types': ['sedan', 'hatchback', 'sports']}})
In both examples above, I first create a dictionary, and then on the row after I add the values I want it to contain. In the first example, I give car_dict the key "Nissan" and set it's values to a new dictionary containing some values.
In the second example I use defaultdict(dict) which basically has the logic of "if i am not given a value for key then use the factory (dict) to create a value for it.
Can you see the difference of how to initiate the values inside of both of the different methods?
When you called car_dict[manufacturer][type] in your code, you hadn't yet initiated car_dict["Nissan"] = value, so when you tried to retrieve it, car_dict returned a KeyError.
As for printing out the values, you can do something like this:
for key in car_dict:
manufacturer = key
car_types = car_dict[key]["types"]
print(f"The manufacturer '{manufacturer}' has the following types:")
for t in car_types:
print(t)
Output:
The manufacturer 'Nissan' has the following types:
sedan
hatchback
sports
When you loop through a dict, you are looping through only the keys that are contained in it by default. That means that we have to retrieve the values of key inside of the loop itself to be able to print them correctly.
Also as a side note: You should try to avoid using Built-in's names such as type as variable names, because you then overwrite that functions namespace, and you can have some problems in the future when you have to do comparisons of types of variables.
I have an array that contains details about a form grabbed in open XML. The key format is funky which is why i am having trouble getting the values easily. A simple loop for key, value pairs does not return the data i want. Here is where i am currently at, i am using python3.
person = [{'{http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main}val': 'Title'}, {'http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main}val': 'FirstName'}, {'{http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main}val': 'LastName'},{'{http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main}val': 'Age'}]
for k in person:
print(k.values())
returns
dict_values(['Title'])
dict_values(['FirstName'])
dict_values(['LastName'])
dict_values(['Age'])
How can i parse these key:value pairs so that i don't get dict_values in front of the value.
Desired output looks like this:
Title
FirstName
LastName
Age
And if i do this:
for k in person:
for key, value in k:
print(v)
I get returned an error of too many values to unpack, which there is only 2 so i dont understand what the error is. Length is 1 when ran on an individual object
You have a rather inefficient format here. You have a list with dictionaries, each with just one key-value pair in them. Things would have been a bit better if your code would instead produce a single dictionary with all those key-value pairs in one object.
You are now printing the .values() dictionary view object. Each contains just one value. You could loop over the object and print each value of each view:
for k in person:
for value in values():
print(value)
Or you could merge all the dictionaries into one and then just loop directly over the values of that single dictionary:
combined = dict(item for d in person for item in d.items())
for value in combined.values():
print(value)
I'm very new in python (I usually write in php). I want to understand how to store information in an associative array, and if you can explain me whats the difference of "tuples", "arrays", "dictionary" and "list" will be wonderful (I tried to read different source but I still not caching it).
So This is my code:
#!/usr/bin/python3.4
import csv
import string
nidless_keys = dict()
nidless_keys = ['test_string1','test_string2'] #this contain the string to
# be searched in linesreader
data = {'type':[],'id':[]} #here I want to store my information
with open('path/to/csv/file.csv',newline="") as csvfile:
linesreader = csv.reader(csvfile,delimiter=',',quotechar="|")
for row in linesreader: #every line in this csv have a url like
#www.test.com/?test_string1&id=123456
current_row_string = str(row)
for needle in nidless_keys:
current_needle = str(needle)
if current_needle in current_row_string:
data[current_needle[current_row_string[-8:]]) += 1 # also I
#need to count per every id how much rows there are.
In conclusion:
my_data_stored = [current_needle][current_row_string[-8]]
current_row_string[-8] is a url which the last 8 digit of the url is an ID.
So the array should looks like this at the end of the script:
test_string1 = 123456 = 20
= 256468 = 15
test_string2 = 123155 = 10
Edit 1:
Which type I need here to store the information?
Can you tell me how to resolve this script?
It seems you want to count how many times an ID in combination with a test string occurs.
There can be multiple ID/count combinations associated with every test string.
This suggests that you should use a dictionary indexed by the test strings to store the results. In that dictionary I would suggest to store collections.Counter objects.
This way, you would have to add a special case when a key in the results dictionary isn't found to add an empty Counter. This is a common problem, so there is a specialized form of dictionary in the collections module called defaultdict.
import collections
import csv
# Using a tuple for the keys so it cannot be accidentally modified
keys = ('test_string1', 'test_string2')
result = collections.defaultdict(collections.Counter)
with open('path/to/csv/file.csv',newline="") as csvfile:
linesreader = csv.reader(csvfile,delimiter=',',quotechar="|")
for row in linesreader:
for key in keys:
if key in row:
id = row[-6:] # ID's are six digits in your example.
# The first index is into the dict, the second into the Counter.
result[key][id] += 1
There is an even easier way, by using regular expressions.
Since you seem to treat every row in a CSV file as a string, there is little need to use the CSV reader, so I'll just read the whole file as text.
import re
with open('path/to/csv/file.csv') as datafile:
text = datafile.read()
pattern = r'\?(.*)&id=(\d+)'
The pattern is a regular expression. This is a large topic in and of itself, so I'll only cover briefly what it does. (You might also want to check out the relevant HOWTO) At first glance it looks like complete gibberish, but it is actually a complete language.
In looks for two things in a line. Anything between ? and &id=, and a sequence of digits after &id=.
I'll be using IPython to give an example.
(If you don't know it, check out IPython. It is great for trying things and see if they work.)
In [1]: import re
In [2]: pattern = r'\?(.*)&id=(\d+)'
In [3]: text = """www.test.com/?test_string1&id=123456
....: www.test.com/?test_string1&id=123456
....: www.test.com/?test_string1&id=234567
....: www.test.com/?foo&id=234567
....: www.test.com/?foo&id=123456
....: www.test.com/?foo&id=1234
....: www.test.com/?foo&id=1234
....: www.test.com/?foo&id=1234"""
The text variable points to the string which is a mock-up for the contents of your CSV file.
I am assuming that:
every URL is on its own line
ID's are a sequence of digits.
If these assumptions are wrong, this won't work.
Using findall to extract every match of the pattern from the text.
In [4]: re.findall(pattern, test)
Out[4]:
[('test_string1', '123456'),
('test_string1', '123456'),
('test_string1', '234567'),
('foo', '234567'),
('foo', '123456'),
('foo', '1234'),
('foo', '1234'),
('foo', '1234')]
The findall function returns a list of 2-tuples (that is key, ID pairs). Now we just need to count those.
In [5]: import collections
In [6]: result = collections.defaultdict(collections.Counter)
In [7]: intermediate = re.findall(pattern, test)
Now we fill the result dict from the list of matches that is the intermediate result.
In [8]: for key, id in intermediate:
....: result[key][id] += 1
....:
In [9]: print(result)
defaultdict(<class 'collections.Counter'>, {'foo': Counter({'1234': 3, '123456': 1, '234567': 1}), 'test_string1': Counter({'123456': 2, '234567': 1})})
So the complete code would be:
import collections
import re
with open('path/to/csv/file.csv') as datafile:
text = datafile.read()
result = collections.defaultdict(collections.Counter)
pattern = r'\?(.*)&id=(\d+)'
intermediate = re.findall(pattern, test)
for key, id in intermediate:
result[key][id] += 1
This approach has two advantages.
You don't have to know the keys in advance.
ID's are not limited to six digits.
A brief summary of the python data types you mentioned:
A dictionary is an associative array, aka hashtable.
A list is a sequence of values.
An array is essentially the same as a list, but limited to basic datatypes. My impression is that they only exists for performance reasons, don't think I've ever used one. If performance is that critical to you, you probably don't want to use python in the first place.
A tuple is a fixed-length sequence of values (whereas lists and arrays can grow).
Lets take them one by one.
Lists:
List is a very naive kind of data structure similar to arrays in other languages in terms of the way we write them like:
['a','b','c']
This is a list in python , but seems very similar to array structure.
However there is a very large difference in the way lists are used in python and the usual arrays.
Lists are heterogenous in nature. This means that we can store any kind of data simultaneously inside it like:
ls = [1,2,'a','g',True]
As you can see, we have various kinds of data within a list and is a valid list.
However, one important thing about them is that we can access the list items using zero based indices. So we can write:
print ls[0],ls[3]
output: 1 g
Dictionary:
This datastructure is similar to a hash map data structure. It contains a (key,Value) pair. An empty dictionary looks like:
dc = {}
Now, to store a key,value pair, e.g., ('potato',3),(tomato,5), we can do as:
dc['potato'] = 3
dc['tomato'] = 5
and we saved the data in the dictionary dc.
The important thing is that we can even store another data structure element like a list within a dictionary like:
dc['list1'] = ls , where ls is the list defined above.
This shows the power of using dictionary.
In your case, you have difined a dictionary like this:
data = {'type':[],'id':[]}
This means that your dictionary will consist of only two keys and each key corresponds to a list, which are empty for now.
Talking a bit about your script, the expression :
current_row_string[-8:]
doesn't make a sense. The index should have been -6 instead of -8 that would give you the id part of the current row.
This part is the id and should have been stored in a variable say :
id = current_row_string[-6:]
Further action can be performed as seen the answer given by Roland.
record=['MAT', '90', '62', 'ENG', '92','88']
course='MAT'
suppose i want to get the marks for MAT or ENG what do i do? I just know how to find the index of the course which is new[4:10].index(course). Idk how to get the marks.
Try this:
i = record.index('MAT')
grades = record[i+1:i+3]
In this case i is the index/position of the 'MAT' or whichever course, and grades are the items in a slice comprising the two slots after the course name.
You could also put it in a function:
def get_grades(course):
i = record.index(course)
return record[i+1:i+3]
Then you can just pass in the course name and get back the grades.
>>> get_grades('ENG')
['92', '88']
>>> get_grades('MAT')
['90', '62']
>>>
Edit
If you want to get a string of the two grades together instead of a list with the individual values you can modify the function as follows:
def get_grades(course):
i = record.index(course)
return ' '.join("'{}'".format(g) for g in record[i+1:i+3])
You can use index function ( see this https://stackoverflow.com/a/176921/) and later get next indexes, but I think you should use a dictionary.
I want to add string dictionary keys like this:
x = "%s-%s-%s %s:%s:00"%(dt.year,dt.month,dt.day,dt.hour,dt.minute)
dict[x] +=a1
But it gives me an error like this:
KeyError: '2015-11-26 8:47:00'
If I try print type(x) it prints str
But if i try this:
dict = {}
x = "abc"
dict[x] = 1
print dict
it print to this:
{'abc': 1}
I don't understand what is the difference.
First error is that you named your dictionary dict. That name's
already being used; it's the name of the dictionary type. Overwriting an
existing name like this is called "shadowing". Don't do it, it will mess
you up.
You're using +=. This implies that there's already a value associated
with the key, which can be incremented. If that key isn't in the dict
yet, you get a KeyError.
You probably want to set a default value of zero. This can be done in
various ways. The simplest is:
d[x] = d.get(x, 0) + a1
Also see the collections standard library, which has a defaultdict
type.