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Re: Initialise dictionary of dictionary

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Thank you so much Tim. This is precisely what I wanted to do! 

On Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:00:23 PM UTC+5:30, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2014-01-23 07:15, Ayushi Dalmia wrote:
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> > I need to initialise a dictionary of dictionary with float values.
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> > I do not know the size of the dictionary beforehand. How can we do
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> > that in Python --
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> Either
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>   d = {}
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> or, if you want
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>   from collections import defaultdict
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>   d = defaultdict(float)
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>   print(d["Hello"])
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> If you really do want a dict-of-dict that defaults to floats, you can
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> do
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>   d = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(float))
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>   print(d[3141]["Hello"])
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> -tkc

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Initialise dictionary of dictionary Ayushi Dalmia <ayushidalmia2604@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 07:15 -0800
  Re: Initialise dictionary of dictionary Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-01-23 09:30 -0600
    Re: Initialise dictionary of dictionary Ayushi Dalmia <ayushidalmia2604@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 21:42 -0800
  Re:Initialise dictionary of dictionary Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-01-23 10:34 -0500
  Re: Initialise dictionary of dictionary Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-01-23 09:41 -0600

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