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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:48:31 +1100
Subject: Re: Building and accessing an array of dictionaries
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Sam <lightaiyee@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to build an array of dictionaries. Most of the dictionary example on the net are for single dictionary.
>
> dict = {'a':'a','b':'b','c':'c'}
> dict2 = {'a':'a','b':'b','c':'c'}
> dict3 = {'a':'a','b':'b','c':'c'}
>
> arr = (dict,dict2,dict3)
>
> What is the syntax to access the value of dict3->'a'?

Technically, that's a tuple of dictionaries, and you may want to use a
list instead:

lst = [dict, dict2, dict3]

Like any other list or tuple, you can reference them by their indices:

lst[2] is dict3

lst[2]['a'] is dict3['a']

Hope that helps!

ChrisA