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1. refactor this dictionary-to-xml converter in python    stackoverflow.com

It's a small thing, really: I have this function that converts dict objects to xml. Here's the function:

def dictToXml(d):
    from xml.sax.saxutils import escape

    def unicodify(o):
  ...

2. Converting a String to Dictionary?    stackoverflow.com

How can i convert the following:

s = "{'muffin' : 'lolz', 'foo' : 'kitty'}"
Into a dictionary object? I'd prefer not to use eval() what should i do? The main reason for this, is ...

3. is there a better way to convert a list to a dictionary in python with keys but no values?    stackoverflow.com

I was sure that there would be a one liner to convert a list to a dictionary where the items in the list were keys and the dictionary had no values. ...

4. Recursively convert python object graph to dictionary    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to convert the data from a simple object graph into a dictionary. I don't need type information or methods and I don't need to be able to convert it ...

5. convert string to dict using list comprehension in python    stackoverflow.com

I have came across this problem a few times and can't seem to figure out a simple solution. Say I have a string

    string = "a=0 b=1 c=3"
I want ...

6. Convert Python dict to object    stackoverflow.com

I'm searching for an elegant way to convert a normal Python dict with some nested dicts to an object. For example:

>>> d = {'a': 1, 'b': {'c': 2}, 'd': ["hi", {'foo': "bar"}]}
Should ...

7. Converting a single ordered list in python to a dictionary, pythonically    stackoverflow.com

I can't seem to find an elegant way to start from t and result in s.

>>>t = ['a',2,'b',3,'c',4]
#magic
>>>print s
{'a': 2, 'c': 4, 'b': 3}
Solutions I've come up with that seems less ...

8. Converting Python Dictionary to List    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to convert a Python dictionary into a Python list, in order to perform some calculations.

#My dictionary
dict = {}
dict['Capital']="London"
dict['Food']="Fish&Chips"
dict['2012']="Olympics"

#lists
temp = []
dictList = []

#My attempt:
for key, value in dict.iteritems():
   ...

9. Convert ConfigParser.items('') to dictionary    stackoverflow.com

How can I convert the result of a ConfigParser.items('section') to a dictionary to format a string like here:

import ConfigParser

config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.read('conf.ini')

connection_string = "dbname='%(dbname)s' user='%(dbuser)s' host='%(host)s' password='%(password)s' port='%(port)s'"

print connection_string % config.items('db')

10. Simple way to convert a string to a dictionary    stackoverflow.com

What is the simplest way to convert a string of keyword=values to a dictionary, for example the following string:

name="John Smith", age=34, height=173.2, location="US", avatar=":,=)"
to the following python dictionary:
{'name':'John Smith', 'age':34, 'height':173.2, ...

11. python, convert a dictionary to a sorted list by value instead of key    stackoverflow.com

I have a collections.defaultdict(int) that I'm building to keep count of how many times a key shows up in a set of data. I later want to be able to sort ...

12. how to convert a xml string to a dictionary in python    stackoverflow.com

I've a program that reads a xml document from a socket, so I've the xml document stored in a string which I would like to convert directly to a python dictionary, ...

13. Is there a way to turn XML into dictionary and lists?    stackoverflow.com

<things>
    <fruit>apple</fruit>
    <hardware>mouse</hardware>
...
</things>
Turn it into:
{'things':[{'fruit':'apple'}, {'hardware':'mouse'}]}
Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks.

14. Convert a sequence of sequences to a dictionary and vice-versa    stackoverflow.com

One way to manually persist a dictionary to a database is to flatten it into a sequence of sequences and pass the sequence as an argument to cursor.executemany(). The opposite is also ...

15. python dictionary conversion from string?    stackoverflow.com

if I've string like

"{ partner_name = test_partner}" OR " { partner_name : test_partner }
its an example string will be very complex with several special characters included like =, [ , ] ...

16. how can I convert a dictionary to a string of keyword arguments?    stackoverflow.com

we can convert the dictionary to kw using **kw but if I want kw as str(kw) not str(dict), as I want a string with keyword arguments for code_generator, if I pass

obj.method(name='name', test='test', ...

17. Python: converting string to flags    stackoverflow.com

If I have a string that is the output of matching the regexp [MSP]*, what's the cleanest way to convert it to a dict containing keys M, S, and P where ...

18. Convert sets to frozensets as values of a dictionary    stackoverflow.com

I have dictionary that is built as part of the initialization of my object. I know that it will not change during the lifetime of the object. The dictionary maps keys ...

19. How do I convert this list of dictionaries to a csv file? [Python]    stackoverflow.com

I have a list of dictionaries that looks something like this:

toCSV = [{'name':'bob','age':25,'weight':200},{'name':'jim','age':31,'weight':180}]
What should I do to convert this to a csv file that looks something like this:
name,age,weight
bob,25,200
jim,31,180

20. How to convert comma-separated key value pairs into a dictionary using lambda functions    stackoverflow.com

I'm having a little problem figuring out lamba functions. Could someone show me how to split the following string into a dictionary using lambda functions?

fname:John,lname:doe,mname:dunno,city:Florida
Thanks

21. How to get all the info in XML into dictionary with Python    stackoverflow.com

Let's say I have an XML file as follows.

<A>
 <B>
  <C>"blah"</C>
  <C>"blah"</C>
 </B>
 <B>
  <C>"blah"</C>
  <C>"blah"</C>
 </B>
</A>
I need to read this file into a dictionary something like ...

22. Python convert string object into dictionary    stackoverflow.com

I have been working to build a complex data structure which would return a dictionary. Currently that class return string object of the form

{ 

   cset : x,

  ...

23. How do you convert a stringed dictionary to a Python dictionary?    stackoverflow.com

I have the following string which is a Python dictionary stringified:

some_string = '{123: False, 456: True, 789: False}'
How do I get the Python dictionary out of the above string?

24. Python: Can we convert a ctypes structure to a dictionary?    stackoverflow.com

I have a ctypes structure.

class S1 (ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = [
    ('A',     ctypes.c_uint16 * 10),
    ('B',   ...

25. Python: Store the data into two lists and then convert to a dictionary    stackoverflow.com

I am new to python, and have a question regarding store columns in lists and converting them to dictionary as follow: I have a data in two column shown below, with nodes(N) ...

26. how to: convert dictionary to strings in Python?    stackoverflow.com

Possible Duplicate:
Creating or assigning variables from a dictionary in Python
Hello we have dictionary like this:
data = {'raw':'lores ipsum', 'code': 500}
how to convert this dict to ...

27. Python: add the key to each list item, and then convert to dictionary    stackoverflow.com

lst = [1,2,3,4]
I have hard coded keys ['one','two','three','four','five'] and I want the dictionary like
{'one':1, 'two':2, 'three':3, 'four':4, 'five':None}
Keys are always more than the number of items in list.

28. Convert a string to a dictionary in Python?    stackoverflow.com

I am pulling data from twitter, which is in the structure of a python dictionary, but the data is held in a string variable. How can I convert this string variable to ...

29. spreadsheet to python dictionary conversion    stackoverflow.com

i am working on python and i want to read *.ods file and convert it to in python dictionary the key will be first column value and the value will be second ...

30. Fastest way to do data type conversion using csv.DictReader in python    stackoverflow.com

I'm working with a CSV file in python, which will have ~100,000 rows when in use. Each row has a set of dimensions (as strings) and a single metric (float). As csv.DictReader ...

31. Is there a nicer way to convert a string into a data set in python?    stackoverflow.com

I've just done an assignment for one of my classes in Python, it works fine and I'm satisfied with it, but it looks so ugly! I've already submitted this code as ...

32. converting a simple list to a dictionary (in python)    stackoverflow.com

I'm learning python. I have a list of simple entries and I want to convert it in a dictionary where the first element of list is the key of the second ...

33. Convert list of dicts to string    stackoverflow.com

I'm very new to Python, so forgive me if this is easier than it seems to me. I'm being presented with a list of dicts as follows:

[{'directMember': 'true', 'memberType': 'User', 'memberId': 'address1@example.com'}, ...

34. Python: list to dictionary, multiple values per key    stackoverflow.com

I have a Python list which holds pairs of key/value:

l=[ [1, 'A'], [1, 'B'], [2, 'C'] ]
I want to convert the list into a dictionary, where multiple values per key would ...

35. convert list of values from a txt file to dictionary    stackoverflow.com

So i have this txt file called Students.txt i want to define a function called load(student) so i have this code:

def load(student):
body


im not quite sure what ...

36. How can I retrieving a timestamp from a dictionary and converting it to datetime object?    stackoverflow.com

I have a dictionary of timestamps in this form 2011-03-01 17:52:49.728883 and ids. How can I retrieve the latest timestamp and represent it in python datetime object? The point is to be ...

37. Converting a dict of dicts into a spreadsheet    stackoverflow.com

My data is a dict of dicts like this (but with a lot more fields and names):

{'Jack': {'age': 15, 'location': 'UK'}, 
 'Jill': {'age': 23, 'location': 'US'}}
I want to export it ...

38. How can I convert a TypedObject to a nested dictionary in Python?    stackoverflow.com

I am using pyAMF and I do receive a TypedObject that is in fact a nested dictionary. I want to convert this to a python dictionary.

39. convert a dict of dict to json    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to convert a dict of dict to json in order to read it with java (jsonLib java). The problem here is that I have a big Json file (130 ...

40. python function-converting texting language to english?    stackoverflow.com

I'm having trouble creating a function that uses a dictionary of texting abbreviations, and using the dictionary to write functions that translate to and from English. For example: “y r u ...

41. Convert a list into a nested dictionary    stackoverflow.com

For example I have

x = ['a','b','c']
I need to convert it to:
y['a']['b']['c'] = ''
Is that possible? For the background, I have a config file which contains dotted notation that points to a place ...

42. How to convert this particular json string into a python dictionary?    stackoverflow.com

How do I convert this string ->

 string = [{"name":"sam"}]
into a python dictionary like so ->
data = {
         "name" : "sam"
   ...

43. python convert list to dictionary    stackoverflow.com

l = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]
I want to convert this list to a dictionary like:
d = {"a": "b", "c": "d", "e": ""}
So basically, the evens will be keys whereas the ...

44. Does converting json to dict with eval a good choice?    stackoverflow.com

I am getting a json object from a remote server, and converting it to a python string like this:

a = eval(response)
Is this stupid in any way, or do I have a ...

45. Converting xml to dictionary using ElementTree    stackoverflow.com

I'm looking for an xml to dictionary parser using ElementTree, I already found some but they are excluding the attributes, and in my case I have a lot of attributes. ...

46. Converting flat Python Dictionary to List of Dictionaries    stackoverflow.com

I have a dictionary in the following format where I don't know the number of lines or items I'm going to receive:

{'line(0).item1':'a', 'line(0).item2':'34', 
 'line(1).item1':'sd', 'line(1).item2':'2', 'line(1).item3':'fg', 
 'line(2).item1':'f' ... }
What ...

47. How to convert a dictionary to query string in Python?    stackoverflow.com

After using cgi.parse_qs(), how to convert the result (dictionary) back to query string? Looking for something similar to urllib.urlencode().

48. How to convert a strictly sorted list of strings into dict?    stackoverflow.com

I have a strictly sorted list of strings:

['a',
 'b',
 'b/c',
 'b/d',
 'e',
 'f',
 'f/g',
 'f/h',
 'f/h/i',
 'f/h/i/j']
This list is similar to tree representation. So, I need to convert it to dict:
{'a': ...

49. Pythonic way to convert list of dicts into list of namedtuples    stackoverflow.com

I have a list of dict. Need to convert it to list of namedtuple(preferred) or simple tuple while to split first variable by whitespace. What is more pythonic way to do it? I ...

50. Convert text into dict    stackoverflow.com

Hello I have text in following format. But I want to convert into dict. I'm using this code to convert into dict. But it is not working.

dict( (n,int(v)) for n,v ...

51. Easiest way to convert two columns to Python dictionary    stackoverflow.com

How would I put the following information into a Python dictionary -- http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html? Keys would be the country and values would be the two-character ISO code. For example, I want ...

52. How to convert two strings into single dictionary?    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to convert two string values into single dict like this

string1='red blue white'
string2= 'first second third'
dict={'red':first,'blue':second.'white':third}
But here i can't use loops!! Is there any other way without loop?. Help me!! Thank ...

53. Need help converting a list of strings to a dictionary    bytes.com

So I have a list of strings that I would like to convert to a dictionary. I want the keys in the dictionary to be the names of the strings and the... other part... i forget what its called, the part after the keys, to be how many times the string occures, this is part of a larger program so I ...

55. How to convert a String to a Dictionary?    bytes.com

if that's what you want, I suggest you take at look at how you can use the pickling library... you do something like this... import pickle as pk d={'a':'google', 'b':80, 'c':'string'} d_str = pk.dumps(d) # put the string d_str into the database... # get the string from the database and do d = pk.loads(d_str) # and there you have your dictionary ...

56. convert string to dictionary    python-forum.org

57. Need help converting a list of strings to a dictionary    python-forum.org

So I have a list of strings that I would like to convert to a dictionary. I want the keys in the dictionary to be the names of the strings and the... other part... i forget what its called, the part after the keys, to be how many times the string occures, this is part of a larger program so I ...

58. how to convert strings to dictionary    python-forum.org

myList=[] for line in open('test.txt'): entries=line.split(',') #entries[0]='title:pirate' #entries[1]='director:jim' d={} for e in entries: ...

59. Help with list to dictionary conversion.    python-forum.org

Help with list to dictionary conversion. by chitownj Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:21 pm Hello new here and wondering if anyone can help me. I have the following code which parses a list. I'm trying to create a key: value for a device configuration xml file. I'm using the file name as the key and the values relate to specified ...

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