Question

Let’s say I have 3 empty dictionaries:

dic1 = {}
dic2 = {}
dic3 = {}

And I want to add to these dictionaries all at once, using a function. What is the simplest way to do this, so far I have:

def fillDics(x):
    count = 0
    for i in range(0, x):
            if count==0:
                    dic1[legendaryfn[count]] = 0
                    dic1[legendary[count]] = 1
                    count+=1

            if count==1:
                    dic2[legendaryfn[count]] = 0
                    dic2[legendary[count]] = 1
                    count+=1

Et cetera, this seems hugely inefficient. What am I missing? I’m pretty new to programming so I’d appreciate any help you can offer.

Answer 1

That’s accomplished like this.

for myDict in [dict1, dict1, dict3]:
  myDict[key] = value

Additionally, if the numeric values are meaningful to you you can add enumerate:

for idx, myDict in enumerate([dict1, dict2, dict3]):
  myDict['position'] = idx

Or what have you.