Question

I did some research on how to use named array from PHP in python, while i found the following code example as they said can be done with dictionary.

shows = [
   {"id": 1, "name": "Sesaeme Street"},
   {"id": 2, "name": "Dora The Explorer"},
]

Source: Portion of code getting from here

Reference: Python references

But how could i adding a new value through a loop? While the references shown on how to adding single value by simply shows[‘key’]=”value” but i can’t linking both of them. Can anyone please show me how to add the value into this dictionary through a loop?

For example:

for message in messages: 
            myvariable inside having two field
            - Message
            - Phone number

Update
May i know how could i loop them out to display after aped list into dictionary? Thanks!

Answer 1

You should be adding the dictionary into an array like :

friends = []
for message in messages:
  dict = {"message" : message.message, "phone" : message.phone }
  friends.append(dict)

to loop again, you can do it this way :

for friend in friends:
  print "%s - %s" % (friend["message"], friend["phone"])