I am trying to make a dictionary by getting the item name and the number of items from the user and make them a key,value pair. This is the code I have so far:
groceries={}
item,number=input("Enter item and number").split()
I am trying to make my code as short as possible and do not want to use the for loop. Is there a way to do this by adding one more line to my code? Meaning when I use print(groceries) I want to actually see the dictionary items that I entered.
Thank you.
Simply you can pass item as key in your groceries dict and pass value as number
item,number=input("Enter item and number ").split(' ')
groceries = {}
groceries[item] = number
for bar makes {f:b, o:a, r:r} strangeIf you're using python 3.8 then you can make it even shorter with the walrus operator:
print({(values := input("Enter item and number").split())[0]: values[1]})
If you want to update your existing dictionary:
groceries = {"foo": "bar"}
print({**groceries, **{(values := input("Enter item and number").split())[0]: values[1]}})
