Kent Johnson wrote: > Luke Paireepinart wrote: > >> I think a better way to do this is to check if 'Level_%i' is in your >> dictionary already. > I am a fan of dict.setdefault() which has this logic built in: > Lev_List = {} > for Element in Elements: > keystr = 'Level_%i' % Element['Level'] > Lev_List.setdefault(keystr, []).append(Element['Name']) > > Also there is no need to create a string for the key, Element['Level'] > is a fine key: > You're absolutely right, Kent. I just created a variable for it because I referred to it 3 times, and didn't want to write out the string over and over. The only reason I used 'Level_%i' instead of just Element['Level'] was because he had that in the original program. > Lev_List = {} > for Element in Elements: > Lev_List.setdefault(Element['Level'], []).append(Element['Name']) > Really cool. I'm a fan now, too :) Thanks for this.
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