Joseph L. Casale wrote: > 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?
>>> data = [{'a': 'xx', 'b': 'yy', 'c': 'zz'}, {'a': 'dd', 'b': 'ee', 'c': 'ff'}] >>> {d["a"]: d["c"] for d in data} {'xx': 'zz', 'dd': 'ff'} -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list