Loop through a dict changing keys

Sun Oct 16 07:12:31 EDT 2011

On 2011年10月16日 00:18:40 -0700, Jon Clements wrote:
> On Oct 16, 12:53 am, PoD <p... at internode.on.net> wrote:
>> On 2011年10月15日 11:00:17 -0700, Gnarlodious wrote:
>> > What is the best way (Python 3) to loop through dict keys, examine
>> > the string, change them if needed, and save the changes to the same
>> > dict?
>>>> > So for input like this:
>> > {'Mobile': 'string', 'context': '<malicious code>', 'order': '7',
>> > 'time': 'True'}
>>>> > I want to booleanize 'True', turn '7' into an integer, escape
>> > '<malicious code>', and ignore 'string'.
>>>> > Any elegant Python way to do this?
>>>> > -- Gnarlie
>>>> How about
>>>> data = {
>>     'Mobile': 'string',
>>     'context': '<malicious code>',
>>     'order': '7',
>>     'time': 'True'}
>> types={'Mobile':str,'context':str,'order':int,'time':bool}
>>>> for k,v in data.items():
>>     data[k] = types[k](v)
>> Bit of nit-picking, but:
>>>>> bool('True')
> True
>>>> bool('False')
> True
>>>> bool('')
> False

Oops :) Brain fade.