thanks a lot!
On 23 Feb, 15:19, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:27:44 AM UTC-5, Mchurch wrote: > > > **{'%s%s' % (Keyword, n): checked}) > > Anthony, can you explain it better? It's something that I would like > > to understand very well. > > '%s%s' % (Keyword, n) is Python string formatting -- if Keyword is "hello" > and n is 5, it will produce the string "hello5". Now, suppose "checked" is > a boolean value equal to True -- then the above will produce the following > dictionary: > > {hello5: True} > > In Python, you can pass a dictionary to a function and precede it with **, > and that is equivalent to passing each item in the dictionary to the > function as a separate keyword argument. So, > > update(**{hello5: True}) > > is equivalent to > > update(hello5=True) > > Of course, the "hello5" is generated dynamically, so we can't use the > latter syntax, but we can construct a dictionary with a dynamically > generated key, which enables us to use the former syntax. > > Anthony