Im trying to declare a multi dimension dictionary and I find it tedious to always having to create a variable with my inner dict to then assign it to its parent value dict
Coming from PHP Im now wondering if im simply missing something.
Here is what I mean
I used to do this alot
$var['nicolas']['age'] = 25;
$var['nicolas']['isMale'] = True;
$var['some_one_else']['age'] = 30;
$var['some_one_else']['isMale'] = False
I really enjoyed this because it allows me to create loops and dynamically add new key/values.
For example
$team_members = array(
"someDepartment" => array(
"Nicolas" => array(
'Title' => 'ConfusedProgrammer',
'Age' => 25,
'Sex' => 'm'
)
),
"OtherDepartment" => array(
"otherGuy" => array(
'Title' => 'Manager',
'Age' => 30,
'Sex' => 'f'
)
)
);
$response = array();
foreach($team_members as $deptName => $deptVal){
foreach($deptVal as $cName => $cVal){
$response[$cName]['Age'] = $cVal['Age'];
$response[$cName]['isMale'] = (strtolower($cVal['Sex']) == 'm'?True:False);
}
}
In python the way I would achieve that would be something similar to the following.
parent_dict = {}
parent_dict['test'] = {}
parent_dict['test']['hello'] = 'It works'
parent_dict['test2']['other_way_to_say_hello'] = 'Does not work :( '
What Im trying to do, is avoid having to declare the new dimension.
Now after researching about this, I realize that the behavior I'm looking for might not be possible at all.
but was hopping to see how you guys deal with those type of situation.
I am very new to python and to date enjoy it a lot, But I feel like dealing with this type of problem often and does slow my progress down significantly.
Thanks
