Support Desk wrote:
i am trying to search a large Python dictionary for a matching value. The
results would need to be structured into a new dictionary with the same
structure. Thanks.
The structure is like this
{ Key : [{'item':value,'item2':value,'
item3':value,'item4':value,'item5':value','item6':value,'item7':value,'item8':value,'item9':value}],
Key2 :
[{'item':value,'item2':value,'item3':value,'item4':value,'item5':value','item6':value,'item7':value,'item8':value,'item9':value}],
Key3 :
[{'item':value,'item2':value,'item3':value,'item4':value,'item5':value','item6':value,'item7':value,'item8':value,'item9':value}]
}
If you're only going to follow a small part of my suggestion, probably
better if you had ignored it entirely. Here is the entire suggestion
again, for closer study:
"""With all the messages I've seen so far on this thread, all you've
managed to do is confuse it further. I suggest you start over (new
thread) with a legal program defining a single dictionary (with real
values for Key, Key2, and value, and without extra quote marks which
make it fail to compile even if we guess what you're doing with the
three keys). I suggest that at least some relevant parts of the data
should not be all identical, so we can tell what's important.
Use copy & paste from working code.
Then given a real dictionary, describe what you really want to search
for, and what acceptable results would be.
And also specify the programming language, version, and OS environment.
"""
There are still syntax errors in the fragment you quoted, and you don't
supply enough context to actually try it. You don't supply values for
the class "Key" or for the value, and you don't ask what you are going
to search for, nor what you expect the result to be.
If I called a mechanic and told him I had trouble starting a motor
vehicle, but refused to tell him anything else, he might guess a bad
battery, out of gas, bad starter. But he probably wouldn't think to ask
me if I had lost my keys. And all the stuff about the starter wouldn't
help if I had neglected to tell him it was a rope-started lawn mower.
And if I did it a second time, he'd probably hang up on me.
My wife's car needed a jump-start today, which is why I'm distracted on
that theme.
DaveA
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