On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Heston James - Cold Beans < heston.ja...@coldbeans.co.uk> wrote:
> Ok, this feels like a horribly noobish question to ask guys but I can't > figure this one out. > > > > I have code which looks like this: > > > > print this_config[1] > > > > this_adapter_config[*"name"*] = this_config[1][*"NAME"*] > > > > Now, the print statement gives me the following: > > > > {'value': 'Route66', 'key': 'NAME'} > > > Yet when the second line of my code throws an error saying the key 'NAME' > doesn't exist. > > > > Any ideas on what's going on, seems quite senseless to me!? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Heston > A dict stores key/value pairs. When you see the print of the dict, it shows you {key1:value1, key2:value2}. So your dict has two keys ('value' and 'key') that map to two values ('Route66' and 'Name' respectively). 'Name' is a value in the dict, not a key, so you can't use that syntax to get it.. In order for this code to work, the dictionary would have to be {'NAME' : 'Route66'} or you would have to use this_config[1]['value'] > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > >
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