How can I increment the value of a variable within dictionary comprehension

Question

start = 0
limit = 100
count = 10
total_count = 1000
pages = {}
for i in range(1, count+1):
    pages[i] = start
    start += limit
print pages
{1: 0, 2: 100, 3: 200, 4: 300, 5: 400, 6: 500, 7: 600, 8: 700, 9: 800, 10: 900}

How can I achieve the same result using dictionary comprehension? I can't seem to be able to increment the value of variable 'start' after each iteration with dict comprehension.

Is it possible to achieve the same result comprehension?

Answer 1

Use mathematics:

pages = {(i+1): 100 * i for i in range(count)}

Since start starts at zero and keeps adding 100, we can use multiplication to find where it should be at each point. If start and limit aren't always going to be what they are here, you can still do this:

pages = {(i+1): start + (limit * i) for i in range(count)}