On 24 January 2013 20:58, Joseph L. Casale <jcas...@activenetwerx.com> wrote: > Hi, > Slightly different take on an old problem, I have a list of dicts, I need to > build one dict > from this based on two values from each dict in the list. Each of the dicts > in the list have > similar key names, but values of course differ. > > > [{'a': 'xx', 'b': 'yy', 'c': 'zz'}, {'a': 'dd', 'b': 'ee', 'c': 'ff'}] > > > { 'xx': 'zz', 'dd': 'ff'} > > > Anyone have insight on how to pull this off? >
Your specification is not exactly clear about how to handle all of the different cases or what you really want but how about: >>> l = [{'a': 'xx', 'b': 'yy', 'c': 'zz'}, {'a': 'dd', 'b': 'ee', 'c': 'ff'}] >>> dict(d.values()[:2] for d in l) {'xx': 'zz', 'dd': 'ff'} Oscar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list