Re: Initialise dictionary of dictionary

2014-01-23 Thread Ayushi Dalmia
Thank you so much Tim. This is precisely what I wanted to do! On Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:00:23 PM UTC+5:30, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2014-01-23 07:15, Ayushi Dalmia wrote: > > > I need to initialise a dictionary of dictionary with float values. > > > I do not know the size of the dictionary b

Re: Initialise dictionary of dictionary

2014-01-23 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-01-23 10:34, Dave Angel wrote: > Unsure of what the floats have to do with it. Perhaps you meant > float KEYS. using floats for keys can be dangerous, as small rounding errors in math can produce keys different enough that they're not found by an exact-match lookup. But yeah, the origin

Re: Initialise dictionary of dictionary

2014-01-23 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-01-23 07:15, Ayushi Dalmia wrote: > I need to initialise a dictionary of dictionary with float values. > I do not know the size of the dictionary beforehand. How can we do > that in Python -- Either d = {} or, if you want from collections import defaultdict d = defaultdict(float)

Initialise dictionary of dictionary

2014-01-23 Thread Ayushi Dalmia
I need to initialise a dictionary of dictionary with float values. I do not know the size of the dictionary beforehand. How can we do that in Python -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list