On 20/02/2015 17:56, Chris Stinemetz wrote:
Please don't top post as it makes long threads difficult if not
impossible to follow, thanks.
I am getting closer. I think I have figured out the logic. I just have a
quick question. How do you access key:values in a nested dictionary?
MOL02997_C': [{'2': '0', '7': '0', '8': '0', '9': '0'}]}
say I want to access the key:value 8:0
print dict['MOL02997_C']['8'] doesn't seem to work.
"doesn't seem to work" doesn't tell us much, so normally you would post
your code and the full traceback that you get. However what you have
seems to be a dictionary that you've called dict, hence overriding the
Python built-in name. This isn't illegal but it's certainly frowned
upon. For the key 'MOL02997_C' you have a list which holds one dict
which contains a value '8' amongst others. Hence:-
>>> mystruct = {'MOL02997_C': [{'2': '0', '7': '0', '8': '0', '9': '0'}]}
>>> mystruct
{'MOL02997_C': [{'7': '0', '8': '0', '2': '0', '9': '0'}]}
>>> mystruct['MOL02997_C']
[{'7': '0', '8': '0', '2': '0', '9': '0'}]
>>> mystruct['MOL02997_C'][0]
{'7': '0', '8': '0', '2': '0', '9': '0'}
>>> mystruct['MOL02997_C'][0]['8']
'0'
Got that?
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