Re: appending key-value pairs to a dict

rbt wrote:
I know how to setup an empty list and loop thru something... appending to the list on each loop... how does this work with dicts?

I'm looping thru a list of files and I want to put the file's name and its sha hash into a dict on each loop.

Whereas with a list you would call "append" in the loop, with a dictionary you simply use an indexed-assignment type of access:

mydict = {}
for filename in some_list_of_filenames:
    hash = sha.sha(open(filename).read()).hexdigest() # or whatever
    mydict[filename] = hash

-Peter
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