On 2014-01-16, Mark Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 16/01/2014 09:48, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I would like to build an array of dictionaries. Most of the dictionary
>>> example on the net are for single dictionary.
>>>
>>> dict = {'a':'a','b':'b','c':'c'}
>>> dict2 = {'a':'a','b':'b','c':'c'}
>>> dict3 = {'a':'a','b':'b','c':'c'}
>>>
>>> arr = (dict,dict2,dict3)
>>>
>>> What is the syntax to access the value of dict3->'a'?
>>
>> Technically, that's a tuple of dictionaries
>
> For the benefit of lurkers, newbies or whatever it's the commas that
> make the tuple, not the brackets.
In _that_ example, yes. There are other cases where it's the
brackets (sort of):
foo('a','b','c') # three separate string objects are passed
foo(('a','b','c')) # a single tuple object is passed
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