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Reputation: 71

Merge multiple dictionaries into unified one using list comprehension

There is an object, lets call it instance_list that contains a dictionary with a word and its occurence (called feature_counts). I would like to combine all of those dictionaries into one. So far, I have created a list comprehension like this

print("List:",[inst.feature_counts.items() for inst in self.instance_list])

and got the following list:

[dict_items([('deal', 1), ('lottery', 3)]), dict_items([('lottery', 2)]), dict_items([('deal', 1)]), dict_items([('green', 1), ('eggs', 1)])]

Expected output is this one:

{'deal':2,'lottery':5,'green':1,'eggs':1}

How do I transform my list comprehension into the final dict?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 273

Answers (1)

Andrej Kesely
Andrej Kesely

Reputation: 195543

If your self.instance_list is list of dictionaries, you can do:

out = {}
for inst in self.instance_list:
    for k, v in inst.items():
        out.setdefault(k, 0)
        out[k] += v

print(out)

Prints:

{'deal': 2, 'lottery': 5, 'green': 1, 'eggs': 1}

Upvotes: 1

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