Question

I have a case where I need to construct following structure programmatically (yes I am aware of .setdefault and defaultdict but I can not get what I want)

I basically need a dictionary, with a dictionary of dictionaries created within the loop.
At the beginning the structure is completely blank.

structure sample (please note, I want to create an array that has this structure in the code!)

RULE = {
     'hard_failure': {
        4514 : {
           'f_expr' = 'ABC',
           'c_expr' = 'XF0',
     }
    }
   }

pseudo code that needs to create this:

...
self.rules = {}
for row in rows:
     a = 'hard_failure'
     b = row[0] # 4514
     c = row[1] # ABC
     d = row[2] # XF0
     # Universe collapse right after
     self.rules = ????
...   

The code above is obviously not working since I dont know how to do it!

Answer 1

Example, that you’ve posted is not a valid python code, I could only imagine that you’re trying to do something like this:

self.rules[a] = [{b:{'f_expr': c, 'c_expr': d}}]

this way self.rules is a dictionary of a list of a dictionary of a dictionary. I bet there is more sane way to do this.