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?
thanks
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