How to insert a new key with a value in a specific position into a dictionary?

Question

I have a huge List of dictionary like this which has almost 100 entries.

[{ "color":-65536, 
  "touch_size":0.21960786,
  "touch_x":831.25,
  "touch_y":1597.2656
},
{ "color":-65536,
  "touch_size":0.20392159,
  "touch_x":1302.5,
  "touch_y":1496.0938
}, .... {}]

I want to insert 2 new keys with values in each dictionary on a particular position.

new_keys = ['touch_x_dp','touch_y_dp']

touch_x_dp needs to be placed after key touch_x and touch_y_dp needs to be placed after touch_y The values for these need to be initialized with None.

I have tried this but this does not place them where I need.

for key in dp_keys:data['attempts'][i]["items"][j][key]=None

Answer 1

If your Python is 3.7+, you can do the following:

data = [{"color": -65536,
         "touch_size": 0.21960786,
         "touch_x": 831.25,
         "touch_y": 1597.2656
         },
        {"color": -65536,
         "touch_size": 0.20392159,
         "touch_x": 1302.5,
         "touch_y": 1496.0938
         }]

fields_order = ["color", "touch_size", "touch_x", "touch_x_dp", "touch_y", "touch_y_dp"]
payload = []
for d in data:
    entity = dict([(f, d.get(f)) for f in fields_order])
    payload.append(entity)

print(payload)
# output: [{'color': -65536, 'touch_size': 0.21960786, 'touch_x': 831.25, 'touch_x_dp': None, 'touch_y': 1597.2656, 'touch_y_dp': None}, {'color': -65536, 'touch_size': 0.20392159, 'touch_x': 1302.5, 'touch_x_dp': None, 'touch_y': 1496.0938, 'touch_y_dp': None}]

For Python<3.7, you should use OrderedDict:

from collections import OrderedDict

fields_order = ["color", "touch_size", "touch_x", "touch_x_dp", "touch_y", "touch_y_dp"]
payload = []
for d in data:
    entity = OrderedDict([(f, d.get(f)) for f in fields_order])
    payload.append(entity)

print(payload)