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How to slice a dictionary in python and Robot-framework?

Slicing is available for lists in python

list1 =[1,2,3,4,5,6]
list1[:3]
[1, 2, 3]

Similarly, slicing or anything similar to that available for dictionary ?

dict1 = {1":a",2:"b",3:"c",4:"d",5:"e"}

I would like to get any 3 (can be random) elements of dictionary, just providing the number (as provided above for list [:2]), then i should be getting below dictionary

dict1 = {1":a",2:"b"} # After slicing

How can this dictionary slicing or alternative be achieved in python & Robot-framework ?

Solution

  • Maybe this is a solution you could consider, since a dict can not be accessed as a list:

    dict1 = {1:"a",2:"b",3:"c",4:"d",5:"e"}

def take(dct, high=None, low=None):
  return dict(list(dct.items())[low:high])

print(take(dict1, 3)) #=> {1: 'a', 2: 'b', 3: 'c'}
print(take(dict1, 5, 2)) #=> {3: 'c', 4: 'd', 5: 'e'}