"Livin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm a noobie so please be easy on me. I have searched a ton and did not find > anything I could understand. > > I'm using py2.3 > > I've been using Try/Except but this gets long with multiple dictionaries. > > I found some code on web pages and such but cannot get them to work. Any > help is appreciated as I need to search multiple dictionaries for keys. > > > > here's the code I found but cannot get to work... > > dict_set = (self.dictHSdevices, self.dictHSevents, self.dictHSbtnDevices) > <-- /creates set of dictionaries/ > > /code to search the set/--> > > val = [ d for d in dict_set if d[value] in dict_set ] > OR > for key, value in dict.iteritems(): pass >
>>> dict_set = [ {1:'a'}, {2:'b',3:'c'} ] >>> def lookup(value): ... for d in dict_set: ... try: ... return d[value] ... except KeyError: ... pass ... raise KeyError(value) ... >>> lookup(1) 'a' >>> lookup(2) 'b' >>> lookup(3) 'c' >>> lookup(4) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "<stdin>", line 7, in lookup KeyError: 4 >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list