RE: Python Libraries: The Random Splash Voter

[slobberchops]

If you print what (voterlist) returns.. this is what it looks like:

Those pairings are the hallmarks of a dictionary variable, and yet it insists it's a list.

Comments

[felixxx]

Since it's [], it's a list.

[slobberchops]

From what I can see, [] is a list, and {} is a dictionary, so [{}], .. is as @rimicane says, a list of dictionaries.

Dictionary

List

It seems there is a such a thing, which I wasn't aware of. The regular 'in' operator as a search does not work on this type so I just messed around with it until I found something that did!

https://pythonexamples.org/python-list-of-dictionaries/

[felixxx]

It's a list of JSONs, actually.

[felixxx]

for thing in list:
    if thing['voter'] == 'thingey':
        do stuff

Something like this should work.

[slobberchops]

Yes, that's exactly what I used.

 for item in voterlist:
     if item['voter'] == strvoter:

[rimicane]

ok, still a list type ( or better say a list of dictionaries):

[ { }, { }, { } ... { } ]