On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 3:03 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 4:30:04 PM UTC+5:30, bartc wrote: >> On 30/03/2018 21:13, C W wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > >> > I want to create a dictionary. >> > >> > The keys are 26 lowercase letters. The values are 26 uppercase letters. >> > >> > The output should look like: >> > {'a': 'A', 'b': 'B',...,'z':'Z' } >> >> > I know I can use string.ascii_lowercase and string.ascii_uppercase, but how >> > do I use it exactly? >> > I have tried the following to create the keys: >> > myDict = {} >> > for e in string.ascii_lowercase: >> > myDict[e]=0 >> >> If the input string S is "cat" and the desired output is {'c':'C', >> 'a':'A', 't':'T'}, then the loop might look like this: >> >> D = {} >> for c in S: >> D[c] = c.upper() >> >> print (D) >> >> Output: >> >> {'c': 'C', 'a': 'A', 't': 'T'} > > As does… >>>> {c: c.upper() for c in s} > {'a': 'A', 'c': 'C', 't': 'T'} : dict > > [Recent pythons; not sure when dict-comprehensions appeared]
3.0, and also backported to 2.7. So go ahead and use 'em. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0274/ ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list