appending to dict

[bucket79]

Hi
is there anyway appending to dictionary?
list has this feature
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>a = []
>>>a.append(1 )
>>>print a[/color][/color][/color]
[1]

but dictionary can't
i wanna do like this thing[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>a = {1, 2}
>>>a.append(3 , 4) -> This is just my idea :@
>>>print a[/color][/color][/color]
{1:2, 3:4}

so i try this feature like[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>a = {1, 2}
>>>a = dict(zip(a.keys ().append(3), a.values().appe nd(4)))[/color][/color][/color]
but this make's error
because a.keys().append (3) makes 'None' (i can't understand this :( )

so i try[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>import copy
>>>a = dict(zip(copy.c opy(a.keys()).a ppend(3),[/color][/color][/color]
copy.copy(a.val ues()).append(4 )))
and
a = dict(zip(copy.d eepcopy(a.keys( )).append(3),
copy.deepcopy(a .values()).appe nd(4)))
but this make's error, too

why a.keys().append (3) makes 'None' ?
and is there anyway appending to dictionary?

any post will be appreciated :)

[Holger Türk]

Re: appending to dict



bucket79 wrote:[color=blue]
> why a.keys().append (3) makes 'None' ?[/color]

Because .append modifies the list in place. It does
not return a new list.
[color=blue]
> and is there anyway appending to dictionary?[/color]

key/value pairs in a dictionary are not ordered. There
is no "last pair". So you can't append to a dictionary.
But you can update it with another dictionary.
Use something like: adict.update (anotherdict)

keys () returns a list of keys in the dictionary.
The order of the elements in this list is arbitrary
(or somehow ordered afterwards). But there is no
real list of keys in the dictionary itself.

Greetings,

Holger

[Hugh Macdonald]

Re: appending to dict

On 14 May 2004 02:40:00 -0700
bucket79@daum.n et (bucket79) wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi
> is there anyway appending to dictionary?
> list has this feature
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>>a = []
> >>>a.append(1 )
> >>>print a[/color][/color]
> [1]
>
> but dictionary can't
> i wanna do like this thing[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>>a = {1, 2}
> >>>a.append(3 , 4) -> This is just my idea :@
> >>>print a[/color][/color]
> {1:2, 3:4}[/color]

a = {1:2}
a.update({3:4})



--
Hugh Macdonald
The Moving Picture Company

[Peter Hansen]

Re: appending to dict

bucket79 wrote:
[color=blue]
> is there anyway appending to dictionary?
> list has this feature
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>>a = []
>>>>a.append( 1)
>>>>print a[/color][/color]
> [1]
>
> but dictionary can't
> i wanna do like this thing
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>>a = {1, 2}
>>>>a.append( 3, 4) -> This is just my idea :@
>>>>print a[/color][/color]
> {1:2, 3:4}[/color]

Did you know that the following actually works?
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> a = {1: 2} # note: your syntax was wrong here
>>> print a[/color][/color][/color]
{1: 2}[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> a[3] = 4
>>> print a[/color][/color][/color]
{1: 2, 3: 4}

Since, as Holger pointed out, dictionaries aren't ordered,
the concept implicit in "append" doesn't apply. The more
appropriate concept "update", however, can be spelled either
dict.update(), or like what I just showed, for dictionaries.

-Peter

[Heather Coppersmith]

Re: appending to dict

On 14 May 2004 02:40:00 -0700,
bucket79@daum.n et (bucket79) wrote:
[color=blue]
> is there anyway appending to dictionary?
> list has this feature[/color]
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>> a = []
>>>> a.append(1)
>>>> print a[/color][/color]
> [1][/color]
[color=blue]
> but dictionary can't
> i wanna do like this thing[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>> a = {1, 2}
>>>> a.append(3, 4) -> This is just my idea :@
>>>> print a[/color][/color]
> {1:2, 3:4}[/color]

Maybe I'm missing something. Try this:

a = { 1:2 }
a[ 3 ] = 4

and then check out

http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node7.html#SECTION007400000000000000000

and

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesmapping.html

HTH,
Heather

--
Heather Coppersmith
That's not right; that's not even wrong. -- Wolfgang Pauli