On Oct 9, 2:16 pm, Token Type <typeto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I try my above codes, what puzzles me is that when
> the data in the dictionary increase, some data become
> missing in the sorted result. Quite odd. In the pairs,
> we have {'journey':'voyage'} but in the sorted result no (
> 'journey-voyage',0.25)
>
> >>> pairs = {'car':'automobile', 'gem':'jewel',
> >>> 'journey':'voyage','boy':'lad','coast':'shore', 'asylum':'madhouse',
> >>> 'magician':'wizard', 'midday':'noon', 'furnace':'stove', 'food':'fruit',
> >>> 'bird':'cock', 'bird':'crane', 'tool':'implement', 'brother':'monk',
> >>> 'lad':'brother', 'crane':'implement', 'journey':'car', 'monk':'oracle',
> >>> 'cemetery':'woodland', 'food':'rooster', 'coast':'hill',
> >>> 'forest':'graveyard', 'shore':'woodland', 'monk':'slave',
> >>> 'coast':'forest','lad':'wizard', 'chord':'smile', 'glass':'magician',
> >>> 'rooster':'voyage', 'noon':'string'}
Keys are unique in dictionaries. You have two uses of 'journey'; the
second will overwrite the first.
Do you _need_ these items to be a dictionary? Are you doing any look
up? If not, just make it a list of tuples:
pairs = [ ('car', 'automobile'), ('gem', 'jewel') ...]
Then make your main loop:
for word1, word2 in pairs:
If you do need a dictionary for other reasons, you might want to try a
dictionary of lists:
pairs = {
'car': ['automobile', 'vehicle'],
'gem': ['jewel'],
}
for word1, synonyms in pairs:
for word2 in synonyms:
...
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