Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'skip:[ 20': 0.04; 'assignment': 0.07; 'cache': 0.07; 'nested': 0.07; 'subject:code': 0.07; 'exception.': 0.09; 'host,': 0.09; 'kumar': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'steps:': 0.09; 'jan': 0.12; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'skip:> 20': 0.16; 'subject:post': 0.16; 'tuple': 0.16; 'typo': 0.16; 'wed,': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'input': 0.22; 'print': 0.22; 'error': 0.23; 'url:home': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'host': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'skip:( 20': 0.30; 'easier': 0.31; "skip:' 10": 0.31; 'extract': 0.31; 'figure': 0.32; 'checking': 0.33; 'mac': 0.33; 'there': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'skip:> 10': 0.36; 'entry': 0.36; 'useful': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'subject:Can': 0.60; 'first': 0.61; 'fields).': 0.84; 'received:108': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Can post a code but afraid of plagiarism Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:26:13 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn References: <4c3009ee-bf97-4d93-83e6-0bc4b2a90e82@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-79-218-11.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1390526775 news.xs4all.nl 2841 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:52421 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:64652 On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:46:36 -0800 (PST), indar kumar declaimed the following: >I have following nested dictionary > >hosts={'PC2': ['02:02:02:02:02:02', '192.168.0.2', '200', {'192.168.0.2': ('02:02:02:02:02:02', 1390461798.531)}], 'PC1': ['01:01:01:01:01:01', '192.168.0.1', '200', {'192.168.0.2': ('02:02:02:02:02:02', 1390461798.531), '192.168.0.1': ('01:01:01:01:01:01', 1390461787.78)}]} > > >How can I print a particular tuple from this table? > > >What I am trying to do is >input1=raw_input("Please enter id of host and IP that you want to be resolved") >z=input1.split() >print("PC3 resolved"+' '+z[1]+' to'+hosts[z[0]][3] z[1]) > This would be a lot easier for you to figure out if you do it in steps: First extract all the data for the user provided host (and use tuple assignment to give useful names to the input fields). host, ip = raw_input("...").split() aHost = hosts[host] cache = aHost[3] ipMap = cache[ip] MAC = ipMap[0] (If you really want the all-in-one: MAC = hosts[host][3][ip][0] ) Note that there is no error checking in that -- if the input has a typo and doesn't find an entry the program will die with an exception. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/