Say I have a variable named choice it is equal to 2. How would I access the name of the variable? Something equivalent to In [53]: namestr(choice) Out[53]: 'choice' for use in making a dictionary. There’s a good way to do this and I’m just missing it. EDIT: The reason to do this is thus. … Read more
While reading up the documentation for dict.copy(), it says that it makes a shallow copy of the dictionary. Same goes for the book I am following (Beazley’s Python Reference), which says:
I’d like to call a function in python using a dictionary.
I can’t really think of any reason why Python needs the del keyword (and most languages seem to not have a similar keyword). For instance, rather than deleting a variable, one could just assign None to it. And when deleting from a dictionary, a del method could be added.
How can I get a list of the values in a dict in Python?
I have a dictionary like this:
I have multiple dicts/key-value pairs like this:
Is there a one-line way of deleting a key from a dictionary without raising a KeyError?
Are there any applicable differences between dict.items() and dict.iteritems()?
I have a dictionary of points, say: