Thanks Cedric! This just what I was looking for. Usually, Julia creates the
type I need. So I never had to explicitly specify the type.
On Saturday, August 6, 2016 at 9:35:18 AM UTC-4, Cedric St-Jean wrote:
>
> Julia optimistically types your arrays and dictionaries, but you can
> always specify it explicitly:
>
> Stimuli = Dict{ASCIIString, Any}[Dict("slots" => Dict("name"=> i,"list"=>
> 1)) for i = 1:10]
>
>
>
> On Saturday, August 6, 2016 at 9:16:56 AM UTC-4, Christopher Fisher wrote:
>>
>> Hi all-
>>
>> I'm trying to create an Array of Dict{ASCIIString,Any}. What I have right
>> now is similar to this:
>>
>> Stimuli = [Dict("slots" => Dict("name"=> i,"list"=> 1)) for i = 1:10]
>>
>> I want to build in the flexibility so I can add an entry later in the
>> code:
>>
>> Stimuli[1]["time"] = .234
>>
>> but I get the following error because its the wrong type
>>
>> MethodError: `convert` has no method matching
>> convert(::Type{Dict{ASCIIString,Int64}}, ::Float64)
>>
>> I could add a fake entry to allow future additions:
>>
>> Stimuli = [Dict("slots" => Dict("name"=> i,"list"=> 1), "fakeEntry" => 1)
>> for i = 1:10]
>> Stimuli[1]["time"] = .234
>> 0.234
>>
>> This works but it is not ideal to populate the dictionary with extraneous
>> entries. What is the proper way to create an Array of
>> Dict{ASCIIString,Any}?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chris
>>
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