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Top Forums Programming Appending a column in xlsx file using Python Post 302999698 by durden_tyler on Monday 26th of June 2017 01:05:58 PM
Old 06-26-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by nans
...But when writing to the excel worksheet, instead of writing the score, all values end up as 'Unknown_June2017'

Also, is it possible to form a dictionary with multiple keys ? For example, I need the first three columns in the 'score.txt' to be associated with the score value and that needs to be compared with column 5,6,7 from the worksheet

Code:
dict_pos[x[0],[1],[2]] = x[3]

My hunch is that you are looking at the wrong column.
If your "pos_col_no" is "F" and "row_no" is 4, then the code will look at cells F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, .... and check if they are keys of dictionary "dpos".

Since you see 'Unknown_June2017' in cells V4, V5, V6, V7, V8, ... it means that the keys are not in column F but in some other column.

Yes, it's possible to form a dictionary with multiple keys.
You can use a special Python data structure called a "tuple" for that.
Elements of tuples have parentheses around them e.g.
Code:
('a', 'b', 'c')

is a tuple.
The code can work without parentheses (for the most part) but it's better to specify them in order to avoid ambiguity.
Like so:

Code:
 >>>
>>>
>>> color_mix = {}
>>>
>>> color_mix['red', 'blue'] = 'purple'          # works without parentheses
>>>
>>> color_mix[('blue', 'yellow')] = 'green'      # although it's customary to use them
>>>
>>> color_mix['yellow', 'red'] = 'orange'
>>>
>>> for k in color_mix.keys():
...     print k
...
('blue', 'yellow')
('red', 'blue')
('yellow', 'red')
>>>
>>>

Comparing tuples is easy:

Code:
 >>>
>>> tuple1 = ('cat', 'dog')
>>> tuple2 = ('dog', 'rat')
>>> tuple3 = ('cat', 'dog')
>>>
>>> tuple1 == tuple2
False
>>>
>>> tuple1 == tuple3
True
>>>
>>> ('hog', 'eel') == tuple1    # Works like this too
False
>>>
>>>

But this is where parentheses are important:

Code:
 >>>
>>> 'hog', 'eel' == tuple3      # Nope! Not what you would expect!
('hog', False)
>>>
>>> ('hog', 'eel') == ('dog', 'rat')  # Use parentheses to avoid surprises
False
>>>
>>>

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