What is the Pythonic way to write this loop?

Question

for jr in json_reports:
  jr['time_created'] = str(jr['time_created'])

What don't you like about it? What's your concern? What do you think could be improved? — S.Lott
– S.Lott, Commented Jul 5, 2009 at 11:33
I thought there might be a one-liner, sort of like a list comprehension, but I geuss that doesn't apply here. — Andrew Johnson
– Andrew Johnson, Commented Jul 5, 2009 at 16:04

Steef · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-04 22:51:49Z

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Looks to me that you're already there

answered Jul 4, 2009 at 22:51

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Fragsworth · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-04 22:53:51Z

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That would be the pythonic way to write the loop if you need to assign it to the same list.

If you just want to pull out strings of all time_created indices in each element of json_reports, you can use a list comprehension:

strings = [str(i['time_created']) for i in json_reports]

answered Jul 4, 2009 at 22:53

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