Question

Here’s my problem:

Lets say I have two dictionaries, dict_a and dict_b.

Each of them have similar keys and values that I can manipulate in the same way, and in fact that’s what I’m doing in a large piece of code. Only I don’t want to have to write it twice. However, I can’t do something like this:

if choose_a == 1:
    for x and y in dict_a.iteritems():
    # goto line 20

if choose_b == 1:
    for x and y in dict_b.iteritems():
    # goto line 20

 # line 20
 # do stuff with x and y.

Except I have no idea what to do in a situation like this. If there is a like thread, please point me to it, and forgive me if I have violated anything (first post). Thanks in advance, I appreciate any help.

Answer 1

Perhaps do something like this:

if choose_a == 1: the_dict=dict_a
elif choose_b == 1: the_dict=dict_b

for x,y in the_dict.iteritems():
    # do stuff with x and y.