Hi everyone, I have a quick quick question joining out of order dictionary values.
For example: I created an empty
config={}
Added some key/value pairs
config["test1"]="elem1" config["test2"]="elem2" config["test3"]="elem3"
.... etc
Dumped the values and joined them at the same time.
print "\\".join(config.values())
elem1\elem3\elem2 This is fine but it doesn't entirely solve the issue. Only some of the key/value pairs in the dictionary are needed so a dump of all values does not work. Also, the order in which the values are joined is important so walking through and joining all values does not work either. The simplest way would be to do something like:
print "\\".join((config["val2"],config["val1"],config["val3"]))
elem2\elem1\elem3 or
print "%s\\%s\\%s" % (config["val2"],config["val1"],config["val3"])
elem2\elem1\elem3 but this seems somehow uneligent. Are there a more efficient/compact ways of doing this kind of operation or is this it? The key/value pairs in these examples are contrived for purposes of this discussion but the end goal is to piece together server and directory path information for use with pysvn. I have a Perl programmer who is learning Python and he is griping that this kind of operation is far simpler in Perl. To print or to retain individual values from a list,it has to be written in the form of config={'test1':'elem1','test2':'elem2','test3':'elem3'} config['test4'] = 'elem4' print config.values() print config['test1']- To get individual values from a list If we want to retrieve all the values or say 2 from 4 its not possible to put in a while loop and get that as a list only takes one argument at a time better way is to extract individually and respective keys could not be obtained if corresponding values are given. -- Vanam
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