CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythondictionary
B-mo
B-mo

Reputation: 49

Concatenate dictionary keys to a string

I have 14 dictionaries all containing the same keys of information (i.e. time, date etc.) , but varying values. I'm trying to build a function that will put together a sentence when the dictionary is listed as the argument in the function.

If I have a dictionary:

dic1 = {'Name': 'John', 'Time': 'morning'}

And I want to concatenate them to a string:

print 'Hello ' + dic1['Name']+', good ' + dic1['Time']+ '.'

How would I go about this?

*Note, sorry, this returns the error:

TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "str") to list

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8662

Answers (3)

Taimoor Changaiz
Taimoor Changaiz

Reputation: 10684

web_response = {2L: 67.0, 3L: 13.67, 4L: 10.25, 5L: 11.8, 6L: 11.83}

I've a dictionary named "web_response",For concatenation of dictionary with string I used comma ","

print "web_response=", web_response

Output:

web_response= {2L: 67.0, 3L: 13.67, 4L: 10.25, 5L: 11.8, 6L: 11.83}

Upvotes: -1

mgilson
mgilson

Reputation: 309831

Using new style string formatting (python2.6 or newer):

print("Hello {Name}, good {Time}.".format(**dic1))

As for your error, I can't explain it with the code you've provided above. If you try to __add__ a string to a list, you'll get that error:

>>> [45,3] + "foo"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "str") to list

But adding a list to a string (which is what you would be doing with the example code if your dictionary had a list as a value) gives a slightly different error:

>>> "foo" + [45,3]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects

Upvotes: 2

kojiro
kojiro

Reputation: 77059

I think you mean interpolate, not concatenate.

print "Hello %(Name)s, good %(Time)s" % dic1

Upvotes: 6

Related Questions