Question

Ok, I have a dictionary called food. food has two elements, both of which are dictionaries themselves, veg and dairy. veg has two elements root : Turnip, and stem : Asparagus. dairy has cheese : Cheddar and yogurt : Strawberry. I also have a new dictionary fruit which has red : Cherry and yellow : Banana.

food['veg']['root'] == 'Turnip'
food['dairy']['cheese'] == 'Cheddar' 

etc and

fruit['red'] == 'Cherry'

Now I would like to add the “fruit” dictionary to the “food” dictionary in its entirety, so that I will have:

food['fruit']['red'] == 'Cherry'

I know that I could do something like this:

food['fruit'] = fruit

But that seems clumsy. I would like to do something like

food.Append(fruit)

But that doesn’t do what I need.

(Edited to removed the initial capitals from variable names, since that seemed to be causing a distraction.)

Answer 1

Food['Fruit'] = Fruit is the right and proper way (apart from the capitalized names).

As @kindall wisely notes in the comment, there can be several names referencing the same dictionary, which is why one can’t build a function that maps the object to its name and uses that as the new key in your food dict.