On Apr 4, 8:56 am, idle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a variable in a loop that I'm trying to expand/translate/ > readdress as an existing dict so as to add some keys into it.. > > eg; I have a set of existing dicts: dictFoo, dictBar, dictFrotz (names > changed to protect the innocent) > > now I'd like to check them all for the existence of certain default > keys; ie, if the dicts don't contain the keys, add them in with > default values. > > so, I've got: > > for a in ['dictFoo','dictBar','dictFrotz']: > if hasattr(a,'srcdir') == False: > a['srcdir']='/usr/src' > > the error I get (which I expect) is 'str' object doesn't support item > assignment. > > what incantation do I cast on 'a' to make the interpreter parse it as > 'dictFoo' on the first iteration, 'dictBar' on the second, and so > forth? > > and/or less importantly, what is such a transformation called, to help > me target my searching? >
It's called "deleting extraneous apostrophes from source code". Happy googling! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
