I have a dict I wish to make which will be quite big, 600 key value pairs. The keys will be integers, the values will be from a list of 3 letters (A,B and C). If I generate a list of the keys how can I 'map' the appropriate value to the key.
Code
my_list = list(range(1,11,1))
my_letters = ["A", "B", "C"]
my_dict = {}
for k in my_list:
for v in my_letters
# I know it isn't going to be nested for loops
Desired output
#my_dict = {"1" : "A", "2" : "B", "3" : "C", "4" : "A", ... "10" : "A"}
Here you can access the corresponding value in my_letters by using the remainder of the division of the key by the length of the list of letters.
my_list = list(range(1,11,1))
my_letters = ["A", "B", "C"]
my_dict = {}
for k in my_list:
my_dict[k] = my_letters[k%len(my_letters)-1]
print(my_dict)
Output:
{1: 'A', 2: 'B', 3: 'C', 4: 'A', 5: 'B', 6: 'C', 7: 'A', 8: 'B', 9: 'C', 10: 'A'}
As pointed out by @DarryIG, using dict
comprehension:
my_letters = ["A", "B", "C"]
my_dict = {k:my_letters[k%len(my_letters)-1] for k in range(1, 11)}