Question

i read a csv into a variable called b

now i am going through every row in it like this:

for row in b:

this dictionary gives me the positions of where these drugs are in the row:

  generic_drugs_mapping={'MORPHINE':[86],
                        'OXYCODONE':[87],
                        'OXYMORPHONE':[99],
                        'METHADONE':[82],
                        'BUPRENORPHINE':[28],
                        'HYDROMORPHONE':[54],
                        'CODEINE':[37],
                        'HYDROCODONE':[55]}

i am setting drug = 'MORPHINE'

am i able to do this:

row[generic_drugs_mapping[drug][0]]!=''

to check whether there is a value in the row[86]!='' ??

Answer 1

Yes, that should work, assuming those are 0-based indexes into row. Is there a reason the elements of the dictionary are lists?