I have a data structure consisting of mixed dictionaries and lists. I am trying to unpack this so as to get tuples of the keys and all sub-values for each key.
I am working with list comprehensions, but just not getting it to work. Where am I going wrong?
I saw many other answers about unpacking a list-of-lists (e.g. 1,2), but could not find an example where a single key unpacks against multiple sub-values.
code:
dict_of_lists = {'A':[{'x':1},{'x':2}], 'B':[{'x':3},{'x':4}] }
print [(key,subdict[subkey],) for key in dict_of_lists.keys() for subdict in dict_of_lists[key] for subkey in subdict.keys()]
When list comprehensions become
ditch them and go with the manual for loop(s) every time:
def unpack(d):
for k, v in d.iteritems():
tmp = []
for subdict in v:
for _, val in subdict.iteritems():
tmp.append(val)
yield (k, tmp[0], tmp[1])
print list(unpack({'A':[{'x':1},{'x':2}], 'B':[{'x':3},{'x':4}] }))
def unpack(d):
for k, v in d.items():
tmp = []
for subdict in v:
for _, val in subdict.items():
tmp.append(val)
yield (k, *tmp) # stared expression used to unpack iterables were
# not created yet in Python 2.x
print(list(unpack({'A':[{'x':1},{'x':2}], 'B':[{'x':3},{'x':4}] })))
Output:
[('A', 1, 2), ('B', 3, 4)]