Can you combine two tuples into one dictionary? Update: Answered.

Question

Hi all,

I was trying some code in the playground, trying to combine two tuples (I used tuples because I don't think strings would be possible since I thought I'd learned dictionaries can only take immutable data types) into a dictionary, but I can't get it right.

Does anyone know how I could get this?

Team = ["Jan", "Piet", "Hans", "Henk", "Anne", "Fleur", "Hannah"]
Players = ["Player: " + x for x in Team]
print(Players)

Vast_team = tuple(Players)
print(Vast_team)

Scores = (81, 36, 72, 24, 55, 56, 12)

Wrong_attempt = {Vast_team:Scores}
print(Wrong_attempt)

This outputs {('Player: Jan', 'Player: Piet', 'Player: Hans', 'Player: Henk', 'Player: Anne', 'Player: Fleur', 'Player: Hannah'): (81, 36, 72, 24, 55, 56, 12)}

How can I make a dictionary where I pair the items from "Vast_team" as keys to the items from "Scores" as values?
Player_scores = {"Player: Jan : 81, Player: Piet : 36, etc"}?

Thnx in advance!

Answer 1

You can merge the `Vast_team` and `Scores` as dictionary with `zip()` inbuilt function. `zip` function accepts any iterables such as tuples, lists, and sets.

# Note that the `zip` function return `zip` object
# we need to convert it into dictionary using `dict()`
result = dict(zip(Vast_team, Scores))
print(result)

Output:
{"Player: Jan": 81, "Player: Piet": 36, ...}

You can check out the documentation of `zip` function by write code `help(zip)`.

Answer 2

Keetie ,

2 possible approaches:

(1) use an index generated from a range. so you can access both of the input tuples in parallel and store the pairs in a dictionary.

(2) we can use the python zip() builtin function to create the pairs and store them in a dictionary.
zip() can take the 2 tuples as arguments.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#zip

Answer 3

Lothar ,

You're right, I forgot myself - sorry. I deleted the answer, and maybe that hasn't been seen yet.

Answer 4

Hi Lothar,

Thankyou for your anwser.
I'm actually quite new to coding and I don't understand neither of the two options you suggested. Could you maybe explain the first option a little more? I have not worked with zip() yet, so I think that one might be a little too hard right now.

Thankyou!

Answer 5

Thnx Defa!

I used Zip and it worked. I tried to read the explanation given with help(zip), but I don't understand it yet. Maybe I'll understand it later on.