defaultdict Questions

5

Solved

I need a dictionary that is automatically filled with a default value for each accessed key that is missing. I've found defaultdict and some other ways to achieve this, but the problem in my case i...
Eleph asked 26/1, 2021 at 12:59

4

Solved

In the following code: from collections import defaultdict confusion_proba_dict = defaultdict(float) for i in xrange(10): confusion_proba_dict[i] = i + 10 print confusion_proba_dict Output i...
Dx asked 24/12, 2016 at 19:21

4

Solved

I'm getting this really strange ImportError when running from collections import defaultdict: ImportError: cannot import name defaultdict I'm running python 2.7, and the strange part is that in ...
Merit asked 13/8, 2014 at 14:5

3

Solved

I have created the following class. Package, website and comments are all strings and distroDict is a (string, list) dictionary. class TableEntry(object): def __init__(self, package, website, di...
Malvia asked 17/12, 2015 at 3:24

2

Solved

I've seen other Python programmers use defaultdict from the collections module for the following use case: from collections import defaultdict s = [('yellow', 1), ('blue', 2), ('yellow', 3), ('bl...

3

Solved

I usually use the following idiom when working with a Python dictionary: try: val = dct[key] except KeyError: print key, " is not valid" since for large dictionaries, the statement if key in ...
Twitt asked 28/1, 2012 at 17:36

12

Solved

Is there a way to make a defaultdict also be the default for the defaultdict? (i.e. infinite-level recursive defaultdict?) I want to be able to do: x = defaultdict(...stuff...) x[0][1][0] {} So...
Batey asked 4/10, 2013 at 19:28

6

Solved

I have a dictionary of lists, and it should be initialized with default keys. I guess, the code below is not good (I mean, it works, but I don't feel that it is written in the pythonic way): d = {...
Diabolic asked 21/3, 2017 at 4:57

5

mapfile = { 1879048192: 0, 1879048193: 0, 1879048194: 0, 1879048195: 0, 1879048196: 4, 1879048197: 3, 1879048198: 2, 1879048199: 17, 1879048200: 0, 1879048201: 1, 1879048202: 0, 1879048...
Persse asked 23/7, 2015 at 8:16

6

A class has a constructor which takes one parameter: class C(object): def __init__(self, v): self.v = v ... Somewhere in the code, it is useful for values in a dict to know their keys. I wan...
Thrum asked 26/5, 2010 at 10:55

3

I am writing code for an application where performance is important. I am wondering why defaultdict seems to be faster then setdefault. I would like to be able to use setdefault, mostly because i ...
Serai asked 28/7, 2016 at 1:13

2

Solved

Is there a way to change the default_factory of a defaultdict (the value which is returned when a non-existent key is called) after it has been created? For example, when a defaultdict such as d ...
Aam asked 6/10, 2013 at 16:35

5

Solved

Given the following dictionary: d = {"a":{"b":{"c":"winning!"}}} I have this string (from an external source, and I can't change this metaphor). k = "a.b.c" I need to determine if the diction...
Whitehead asked 13/9, 2012 at 21:9

3

Solved

I am trying to do something similar to this: from collections import defaultdict import hashlib def factory(): key = 'aaa' return { 'key-md5' : hashlib.md5('%s' % (key)).hexdigest() } a = defa...
Cinchonine asked 16/10, 2013 at 8:56

2

Solved

I'm wondering if there's a more clever way to create a default dict from collections. The dict should have an empty numpy ndarray as default value. My best result is so far: import collections d ...
Tamikatamiko asked 29/7, 2014 at 11:33

10

Solved

I have a defaultdict that looks like this: dict1 = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(int)) The problem is, I can't pickle it using cPickle. One of the solution that I found here is to use module-l...
Jura asked 8/5, 2013 at 11:20

2

Solved

I am trying to convert a list of dot-separated strings, e.g. ['one.two.three.four', 'one.six.seven.eight', 'five.nine.ten', 'twelve.zero'] into a tree (nested lists or dicts - anything that is e...
Collogue asked 14/5, 2013 at 15:52

15

Solved

I've read the examples in python docs, but still can't figure out what this method means. Can somebody help? Here are two examples from the python docs >>> from collections import defaultd...
Bundesrat asked 5/5, 2011 at 15:45

3

Solved

I am new to python, and i read some code snippet from some place. It's an implementation of counting sort. The code is as below: from collections import defaultdict def sort_colors(A): ht = {} #...
Musick asked 20/5, 2015 at 17:48

11

Solved

I have a question about idioms and readability, and there seems to be a clash of Python philosophies for this particular case: I want to build dictionary A from dictionary B. If a specific key doe...
Liverwort asked 22/12, 2010 at 18:48

4

Solved

I have a data-structure which is something like this: The population of three cities for different year are as follows. Name 1990 2000 2010 A 10 20 30 B 20 30 10 C 30 10 20 I am using a default...
Towrope asked 17/4, 2012 at 15:57

2

Solved

So the defaultdict documentation mentions that, if an item is missing, the value returned by default_factory "is inserted in the dictionary for the key, and returned." That's great most of the time...
Jodee asked 30/7, 2013 at 20:40

3

Solved

Is there a way to get the original/consistent list of keys from defaultdict even when non existing keys were requested? from collections import defaultdict >>> d = defaultdict(lambda: 'de...
Homosexuality asked 30/7, 2017 at 9:11

2

Solved

I have 2 example lists and what I want to achieve is to obtain a nested default dictionary with the sum of the values. The following code works nice: from collections import defaultdict l1 = [1,...
Andes asked 22/12, 2018 at 10:4

4

Solved

Assume I have a list. temp = ['A', 'B', 'A', 'B', 'A', 'B'] I am looking for a way to join the count of the string inside. Intended Output: ['A_1', 'B_1', 'A_2', 'B_2', 'A_3', 'B_3'] I was a...
Signpost asked 1/11, 2018 at 9:49

© 2022 - 2025 — McMap. All rights reserved.