James: Your solution works for me, many, many thanks for your help and many thanks for the time, teaching and reflections I received from all the guys that participated in this thread.
James Stroud wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello: > > I have next dictionaries: > > a={'a':0, 'b':1, 'c':2, 'd':3} > > b={'a':0, 'c':1, 'd':2, 'e':3} > > I want to put in a new dictionary named c all the keys that are in b > > and re-sequence the values. The result I want is: > > c={'a':0, 'c':1, 'd':2} > > How can I do this with one line of instruction? > > > > I attempted the next but the output is not the expected: > > c=dict([(k,v) for v,k in enumerate(a) if b.has_key(k)]) > > erroneously (for me) gets: > > {'a': 0, 'c': 2, 'd': 3} > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > I think you have the right idea if I understand what you want: > > c = dict(((k,v) for (v,k) in enumerate(x for x in a if b.has_key(x)))) > > -- > James Stroud > UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics > Box 951570 > Los Angeles, CA 90095 > > http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list