python map array of dictionaries to dictionary?

Question

I've got an array of dictionaries that looks like this:

[
  { 'country': 'UK', 'city': 'Manchester' },
  { 'country': 'UK', 'city': 'Liverpool' },
  { 'country': 'France', 'city': 'Paris' } ...
]

And I want to end up with a dictionary like this:

{ 'Liverpool': 'UK', 'Manchester': 'UK', ... }

Obviously I can do this:

 d = {}
 for c in cities:
     d[c['city']] = c['country']

But is there any way I could do it with a single-line map?

Kasravnd · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-28 10:43:14Z

11

You can use a dict comprehension :

>>> li = [
...   { 'country': 'UK', 'city': 'Manchester' },
...   { 'country': 'UK', 'city': 'Liverpool' },
...   { 'country': 'France', 'city': 'Paris' }
... ]

>>> {d['city']: d['country'] for d in li}
{'Paris': 'France', 'Liverpool': 'UK', 'Manchester': 'UK'}

Or us operator.itemgetter and map function :

>>> dict(map(operator.itemgetter('city','country'),li))
{'Paris': 'France', 'Liverpool': 'UK', 'Manchester': 'UK'}

edited Jul 28, 2015 at 10:43

answered Jul 27, 2015 at 15:20

Kasravnd

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