CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user42493
user42493

Reputation: 1103

change a list into a dictionary with random values

How do we change a list into a dictionary?

for example we want to make the list l=["cat","dog","elephant","chicken","lion"] into {"cat":0, "dog":1,"elephan":2, "chicken":3, "lion":4} I think I can get a dictionary with all values equals to 0 by dict.fromkeys(l, 0). But I need a dictionary with distinct values

Upvotes: 0

Views: 80

Answers (2)

Surya Bhusal
Surya Bhusal

Reputation: 630

You could try the below code:

import random

l=["cat","dog","elephant","chicken","lion"] # keys
value = random.sample(range(1, 100), len(l)) # values

my_dict = list(zip(l,value))
my_dict = dict(my_dict)

print(my_dict)

Upvotes: 1

Vivek
Vivek

Reputation: 21

If the intention is to get the frequency of the words, you can use Counter from collections. The fromkeys method of dict doesn't accept callable as value for it's second argument, you can use dict comprehension without any limits otherwise!

>>> from collections import Counter
>>> l=["cat","dog","elephant","chicken","lion"]
>>> d=Counter(l)
>>> d
Counter({'cat': 1, 'dog': 1, 'elephant': 1, 'chicken': 1, 'lion': 1})

Upvotes: 1

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