Nested dictionary issue

[Will86]

Hi all,

I am struggling a bit with some code and would really appreciate some guidance.

I currently have the below input dictionary

[OrderedDict([('@id', '1'), ('@state', 'IDLE')]), OrderedDict([('@id', '2'), ('@state', 'IDLE')])]
OrderedDict([('@id', '1'), ('@state', 'HIGH')])
[OrderedDict([('@id', '21'), ('@state', 'HIGH')]), OrderedDict([('@id', '22'), ('@state', 'IDLE')])]

And would like to get something like that as an output :

['IDLE',1,2,22]['HIGH',1,21]

My current code after many try is :

                        print(ZD['Status']['Zone'])
                        ret = OrderedDict()
                        for key, value in ZD['Status']['Zone']:
                            print('***')
                            print(key, value)
                            if value not in ret:
                                ret[value] = []
                                ret[value].append(key)

                        print ([[value] + key for value, key in ret.items()])

and the current output :

***
@id @state
[['@state', '@id']]

Any advice would be really appreciated

[Larz60+]

please express dictionaries as python code

[ichabod801]

If you want to iterate over the key/value pairs of a dictionary, you need to use items: for key, value in ZD['Status']['Zone'].items():.

Also, you need to un-indent your append on line 8. As it is you are only appending the first item, not any later ones.

[Will86]

Thanks, this helped. I used another method to achieve this and this seems to work now.