Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > Is there a way to abbreviate the following code somehow? > > lv = {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'1', 'name':'Leisure volts'} > sv = {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'0', 'name':'Starter volts'} > la = {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'2', 'name':'Leisure Amps'} > sa = {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'3', 'name':'Starter Amps'} > bv = {'dev':'adc2', 'input':0, 'name':'BowProp Volts'} > > It's effectively a 'table' with columns named 'dev', 'input' and > 'name' and I want to access the values of the table using the variable > name. > Or, more sensibly, make the above into a list (or maybe dictionary) of dictionaries:-
adccfg = [ {'abbr':'lv', 'dev':'bbb', 'input':'1', 'name':'Leisure volts'}, {'abbr':'sv', 'dev':'bbb', 'input':'0', 'name':'Starter volts'}, {'abbr':'la', 'dev':'bbb', 'input':'2', 'name':'Leisure Amps'}, {'abbr':'sa', 'dev':'bbb', 'input':'3', 'name':'Starter Amps'}, {'abbr':'bv', 'dev':'adc2', 'input':0, 'name':'BowProp Volts'} ] This pickles nicely, I just want an easy way to enter the data! > I could, obviously, store the data in a database (sqlite), I have some > similar data in a database already but the above sort of format in > Python source is more human readable and accessible. I'm just looking > for a less laborious way of entering it really. > -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list