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Florian
Florian

Reputation: 41

Extract integers from tuples stored as a value in a dictionary

I'm trying to extract integers stored as a tuple as the value in a dictionary.

my_dict = {'String': ('123', '456', '789')}

Goal:

a = 123
b = 456
c = 789

I've tried

for k,v in my_dict.items():
    a = v[0]

Or by changing the for loop

for item in my_dict.values():
    a = item[0]

For both versions:

'int' object is not subscriptable

Why the heck int? Isn't this a tuple?

I've tried a handful of other options I've already forgot but didn't work either. I've been only learning python for a month by now, so I hope I'm missing something obvious here.

Any hint is appreciated!

Cheers, Florian

Update 1: My actual code. The last three lines are where I add the list elements as the values to my_dict

my_dict = dict()
for x in file_handle:
    if "string" in x:
        y = x.strip()
        z = y[7:-8]
        my_dict[z] = my_dict.get(z,0) + 1
    elif "date" in x:
        cleanedup = x.strip()
        titledate = cleanedup[23:-27]
        # titledate = titledate.replace("-", ",")
        year = titledate[:4]
        month = titledate[5:-3]
        month = month.lstrip("0")
        day = titledate[8:]
        day = day.lstrip("0")
        titledate = list()
        titledate.append(year)
        titledate.append(month)
        titledate.append(day)
        my_dict[z] = my_dict.get(z, 0) + 1
        my_dict_temp = {z: (year, month, day)}
        my_dict.update(my_dict_temp)

Update 2: The application of this is, I want to check if the date stored as a tuple as the value in my_dict is within the date range of today - 7 days

import datetime
today = datetime.date.today()
margin = datetime.timedelta(days = 7)
for k,v in my_dict.items():
if today - margin <= datetime.date(v):
    print("Within date range")

I get the following error: function missing required argument 'month' (pos 2)

When I change the if-statement to

if today - margin <= datetime.date(v[0], v[1], v[2]):

-> 'int' object is not subscriptable

Upvotes: 1

Views: 962

Answers (1)

ScootCork
ScootCork

Reputation: 3686

You can use tuple unpacking to assign them all in one go.

my_dict = {'String': ('123', '456', '789')}

a,b,c = my_dict['String']

print(a,b,c)

#prints

123 456 789

If you'd want them as int you could something like

a,b,c = [int(x) for x in my_dict['String']]

Upvotes: 2

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