On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 9:32 AM Daniele Dolci <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Dictionaries are basically hash maps and therefore are not ordered. You
> can't preserve the order of the entries in a dict, indeed when you use sort
> you are doing it on a list. There is something called ordered dictionary
> that you can check out, otherwise you could use a list of tuples. I hope
> it helps.
>
You are right, and I think I misread the intent from that line. It does
look like the intended goal was to have an ordered dictionary based on the
'name' field of each dict value.
>
>
> Il giorno martedì 11 dicembre 2018 21:07:52 UTC+1, yann19 ha scritto:
>>
>> I apologize in advance as this is not much of a Maya question but I am
>> trying to convert this 'list' within nested dictionaries into a dictionary
>> type.
>>
>> I had a function where it ingests in a nested dictionary and allows me to
>> sort the contents by a specified value eg. name.
>> This is a portion of it -
>> return {k: {'entries': sorted([v1 for _,v1 in v['entries'].items()], key=
>> lambda el: el['name'])} for k,v in dict_data.items()}
>>
>> However, possibly because I am using [] which returns me a list type.
>>
>> What I am expecting in the output is something as follow:
>> {'my test':
>> {
>> 'entries': {
>> 'name': 'running_slow_v001'
>> ...
>> },
>> ...
>> }
>> }
>>
>> but I am getting:
>> {'my test':
>> {
>> 'entries': [{
>> 'name': 'running_slow_v001'
>> ...
>> }],
>> ...
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>> I tried using `dict()` and tested the placement anywhere within the
>> return sentence, it will returns me an error.
>> Appreciate in advance for any replies.
>>
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