Question

I’ trying to create a PHP like array in python. In Perl it would be a hash…

I want to organize content from the database in an array for easier access.

Something like:

myarray[db_numeric_value1][db_numeric_value2] = db_str_value

But no luck so far…

I tried to initialize myarray as an object list (myarray = {}) or as an array (myarray = [])… Also tried to initialize the “subarrays” but did not work either…

Thanks for your help!

Ron

Answer 1

you may use python’s defaultdict with proper “default_factory”:

from collections import defaultdict
myarray = defaultdict(dict)
myarray[4][5] = 34