Question

Sorry for the poor title, basically I want to access a list item based on another list item:

catList = [john, james, jack]
dateList = [1y, 2y, 3m]

for item in catList:
    if item in typeList[1]:
        calendar += 1
    if item in typeList[2]:
        connector += 1
        print dateList[item]

It’s the last line that I want to achieve, essentially to print the value of dateList which corresponds to the value of catList.

Any ideas? Thanks

Edit: My catDict & dateDict are lists so they don’t have keys, just values.

Answer 1

If the keys to catDict are numeric strings you can use print dateDict[int(item)]. Otherwise, I’m uncertain – we need to see what the declaration of catDict looks like.

If you’re using lists you want to do this:

for idx, val in enumerate(catList):
  print dateList[idx]