Thanks Tim (and Ishwor) for the suggestions, those are structures
that somewhat new to me - looks good! I'll play with those. At
this rate I may soon almost know what I'm doing.
Rgds
Ross.
On 18-Sep-09, at 1:19 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
Learning my way around list comprehension a bit. I wonder if
someone has a better way to solve this issue. I have a two
element dictionary, and I know one of the keys but not the other,
and I want to look up the other one.
Several ways occur to me. Of the various solutions I played with,
this was my favorite (requires Python2.4+ for generator expressions):
d = {'a': 'alice', 'b':'bob'}
known = 'a'
other_key, other_value = (
(k,v)
for k,v
in d.iteritems()
if k != known
).next()
If you just want one or the other, you can simplify that a bit:
other_key = (k for k in d.iterkeys() if k != known).next()
other_key = (k for k in d if k != known).next()
or
other_value = (v for k,v in d.iteritems() if k != known).next()
If you're using pre-2.4, you might tweak the above to something like
other_key, other_value = [
(k,v)
for k,v
in d.iteritems()
if k != known
][0]
other_key = [k for k in d if k != known)[0]
other_value = [k for k in d.iteritems if k != known][0]
Hope this helps,
-tkc
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