Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list

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On 24/11/2015 14:07, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:04:56 -0800, Cai Gengyang wrote:
>
>> Here's a dictionary with 3 values :
>>
>> results = {
>>    "gengyang": 14,
>>    "ensheng": 13, "jordan": 12
>> }
>>
>> How do I define a function that takes the last of the 3 items in that
>> list and returns Jordan's results i.e. (12) ?
>
> You open a web browser and google for "python dictionary"
>

Ooh steady on old chap, surely you should have fitted the bib, done the 
spoon feeding and then changed the nappy?  That appears to me the 
preferred way of doing things nowadays on c.l.py, rather than bluntly 
telling people not to be so bloody lazy.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Returning a result from 3 items in a list Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 02:04 -0800
  Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 21:14 +1100
    Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 02:27 -0800
      Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-24 11:35 +0100
        Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 02:47 -0800
      Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 22:05 +1100
        Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 03:06 -0800
  Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-24 11:32 +0100
  Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 14:07 +0000
    Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-11-24 14:28 +0000
      Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-11-24 08:59 -0800
        Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 02:26 -0800
          Re: Returning a result from 3 items in a list Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-11-25 11:22 +0000

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