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[dirvine]

I would like to create a dictionary based on a variable i.e read a
bunch of filenames and create a dict for each one called the filename
filename={}
to get the filenames I trraverse teh dirs woth os.path.walk or similar

Sorry I'm a bit new to python

 

[Rene Pijlman]

dirvine:

I would like to create a dictionary based on a variable [...]

And what seems to be the problem?

 

[Martin P. Hellwig]

dirvine:

I would like to create a dictionary based on a variable [...]

And what seems to be the problem?

I think that this is his problem:
SyntaxError: can't assign to literal

But I'm puzzled why he wants that route, while I'm still pretty new to
programming, I usually smell a design fault when I want to try to
squeeze a literal name into a object variable (am I'm saying this
correct?). Most of the time nesting dictionaries will do the trick for me:

>>> sharedDict=dict()
>>> sharedDict['somename']=dict()
>>> sharedDict['someothername']=dict()
>>> sharedDict {'somename': {}, 'someothername': {}}
>>>