Question

I want to be able to store and look up values in a dictionary based on two integer values.

So when I look up a value I want to use the keys read_length and min_size to access the element, like so:

number_of_read_lengths[read_length][min_size]

I know I can create nested dictionaries, but that is a slight hassle.

Is there a simple way of doing what I want to do?

Answer 1

You can use any immutable and hashable object as key, including tuples

number_of_read_lengths = {}    
number_of_read_lengths[14,3] = "Your value"