On 8 May 2012 23:23, Jacob Bender <benderjaco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Tutors, > > My original email was this: > > "Dear tutors, > > I'm trying to create a neural network program. Each neuron is in a > dictionary and each of its connections and their strengths are in a nested > dictionary. So {0:{1:4, 2:5}}, 1:{0:6}, 2:{1:2}} would mean that neuron 0 > is connected to neuron 1 with a strength of 4. And it also means that > neuron 1 is connected to neuron 0 with a strength of 6. > > The problem is that I'm working on a function that is supposed to add the > total strengths of each neuron. So, for example, neuron 0's connections > have a total strength of 9 (4+5). The other problem is getting all of the > total strengths and ordering the neurons into a list. So, from the example, > the list would be from [0,1,2] because zero has the greatest total strength > of 9, then 1 with a total strength of 6 and so on. I've been working on > this problem for at least 2 hours now and still haven't found anything > close to a solution." > > And here's my source code:
<snip> > The total function works when it returns the strength of a neuron, but I > don't think the "sorted" function is the best because, with its current > configuration, it returns a type error. I have been doing python for several > years now. I don't know EVERYTHING there is to know, but I am able to do > most tasks without error. Please help me get the neurons into an order in a > list as described in my original email. Also, I do thank you for your > original replies! > > -- > Thank you, > Jacob Hi Jacob, While I agree with those who suggested you send some code, I didn't look at it too closely. Only close enough to be fairly sure I wasn't doing everything for you by suggesting you consider the following approach :-) >>> neurons = {0:{1:4, 2:5}, 1:{0:6, 2:1}, 2:{0:3, 1:1}} >>> weights = {} >>> for neuron in neurons: total_weight = 0 conections = neurons[neuron] for conection in conections: total_weight += conections[conection] weights[neuron] = total_weight >>> for neuron in sorted(weights): print neuron, weights[neuron] 0 9 1 7 2 4 >>> HTH, Brian vdB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor