Having real trouble building a nested dictionary in a loop. No matter what I do, I only end up with the nested dictionary containing the last dictionary. A version of the code is:
def choose_games(combo_dict, big_dict, NumT):
global curr_dict
for n in range (1, NumT+1):
comb_games = big_dict[n]
init_scores = [0] * len(comb_games)
curr_dict = dict(zip(comb_games, init_scores))
combo = combo_dict[n]
length = len(combo)
all_dict = {}
if length == 0:
pass
else:
for m in range(0, length):
two_games = combo[m]
choice = input(f' Match {m+1}/{length}: {two_games[0]} (1), or {two_games[1]} (2)')
while choice.isdigit() == False:
print("That is not a number, please enter 1 or 2")
choice = input(f' Match {m+1}/{length}: {two_games[0]} (1), or {two_games[1]} (2)')
choice = int(choice)
if choice not in (1,2):
print('That is not 1 or 2. You must type "1" or "2"')
choice = int(input(f' Match {m+1}/{length}: {two_games[0]} (1), or {two_games[1]} (2)'))
else:
print(f'You chose {two_games[choice-1]}')
curr_dict[two_games[choice-1]] += 1
print(f' n is {n}')
print(f'End dict for tier {n} is {curr_dict}')
print(n)
all_dict[n] = curr_dict
print(all_dict)
Each time I run it, the print functions at the end show n is incrementing and show a different value of all_dict. But it only shows one key each time. So when n = 1 I get the correct dictionary, but when n=2 I only get the n = 2 dictionary. That is it seems to be overwriting all_dict every time, rather than adding a new key/value pair each time. Can't understand it at all. Any ideas?
