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June 4th, 2004, 06:30 PM
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Passing dictionary elements
I need to be able to pass dictionary elements into a function but it keeps telling me it is not the correct type.
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my_function(my_dict['element']) Code:
def my_function(dict_element):var = "%s" % dict_element This does not work. It won't convert the dict_element to a string. Somehow I need to pass those elements into the function. Any suggestions are appreciated.
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June 5th, 2004, 01:01 AM
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I dont see any reason why this shouldnt work. The only problem i can see would be a KeyError if the element didn't exist within the dictionary. Does the dictionary contain strings or digits. In any case give this a go:
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elements = {'one': 'two', 'three': 'four'}
def function(element):
print element
function(elements['one'])
This should simply show the element in the console. Maybe you can show us your whole program since i can't see any reason to do 'var = "%s" % element'; if you do want to convert the element to a string and it isnt already then use the str() function instead  i.e.Code:
var = str(element) Hope this helps, Mark.
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June 5th, 2004, 09:41 AM
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Thanks for the response. Unfortunately the program is at work and I fired off that question right before I left. I'll look it over again and if I can't figure it out repost on Monday.
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June 7th, 2004, 02:41 PM
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Stepped in Monday morning and got it all to work within 10 minutes. I think the problem was that it was 5:45pm on Friday and I wanted to get the hell out of here.
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