>You could put the loop into a helper function, but if you are looping
>through the same my_list more than once why not build a lookup table
>
>my_dict = {d["key"]: d for d in my_list}
>
>and then find the required dict with
>
>my_dict[value]
I suppose, what I failed to clarify was that for each l
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
[Ian Kelly]
>> {k: v for d in my_list if d['key'] == value for (k, v) in d.items()}
>
> Ugh, had part of that backwards:) Nice!
>
>> However, since you say that all dicts have a unique value for
>> z['key'], you should never need to actually merge two dicts, correct?
>> I
> {k: v for d in my_list if d['key'] == value for (k, v) in d.items()}
Ugh, had part of that backwards:) Nice!
> However, since you say that all dicts have a unique value for
> z['key'], you should never need to actually merge two dicts, correct?
> In that case, why not just use a plain for loop
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Joseph L. Casale
wrote:
> I get a list of dicts as output from a source I need to then extract various
> dicts
> out of. I can easily extract the dict of choice based on it containing a key
> with
> a certain value using list comp but I was hoping to use dict comp
