I’m still a beginner at Python. Here is my list:
['Kaivopuisto', ('24.950292890004903', '60.155444793742276'),
'Laivasillankatu', ('24.956347471358754', '60.160959093887129'),
'Kapteeninpuistikko', ('24.944927399779715', '60.158189199971673'),
'Viiskulma', ('24.941775800312996', '60.16098589997938'),
'Sepankatu', ('24.93628529982675', '60.157948300373846'),
'Hietalahdentori', ('24.929709900391629', '60.162225100108344'),
'Designmuseo', ('24.945959999554361', '60.163103199952786'),
'Vanha kirkkopuisto', ('24.939149900447603', '60.165288299815245'),
'Erottajan aukio', ('24.944134928883898', '60.166911666939939')]
I need to create a new dictionary with the string (name) as the key and the tuple as the value. For clarification, the string is the name of a city in Finland and the tuple is longitude and latitude for the city. I really could use some guidance please.
I tried list comprehension, I tried a for loop, I tried the update method – I can’t get anything to work.
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You need to iterate over your list and skip every other item so that you only grab the cities name as the key, then you can use i+1 to grab the coordinates
cities = [
'Kaivopuisto', ('24.950292890004903', '60.155444793742276'),
'Laivasillankatu', ('24.956347471358754', '60.160959093887129'),
'Kapteeninpuistikko', ('24.944927399779715', '60.158189199971673'),
'Viiskulma', ('24.941775800312996', '60.16098589997938'),
'Sepankatu', ('24.93628529982675', '60.157948300373846'),
'Hietalahdentori', ('24.929709900391629', '60.162225100108344'),
'Designmuseo', ('24.945959999554361', '60.163103199952786'),
'Vanha kirkkopuisto', ('24.939149900447603', '60.165288299815245'),
'Erottajan aukio', ('24.944134928883898', '60.166911666939939')
]
# Create an empty dictionary
cities_dict = {}
# Step is 2 so that we skip the coordinates and only grab the cities as the key
for i in range(0, len(cities), 2):
name = cities[i]
coordinates = cities[i+1]
cities_dict[name] = coordinates
print(cities_dict)