I'm trying to combine data using Python. For an example, I want to combine
[{'foo': 'something'}, {'foo': 'something else'}, {'foo': 'something else'}]
and
[{'bar': 'else'}, {'bar': 'else else'}, {'bar': 'else else'}]
to something like this:
[{'foo: 'something', 'bar': 'else'}, {'foo': 'something else', 'bar': 'else else'}, {'foo': 'something else', 'bar': 'else else'}]
Would this be possible in Python?
All you need to do is produce a new dictionary for each two input dictionaries. Use zip() to produce pairs:
result = [dict(a, **b) for a, b in zip(first, second)]
where first and second are your input lists. dict() creates a copy of an existing dictionary, but the **b syntax is a bit of a trick to add additional keys.
The result will be in a
a = [{'foo': 'something'}, {'foo': 'something else'}, {'foo': 'something else'}]
b = [{'bar': 'else'}, {'bar': 'else else'}, {'bar': 'else else'}]
for i,j in zip(a,b):
i.update(j)
print a
i = None assignment is entirely redundant here. @user3587412: I'm fine with this if this answer helped you most, but you cannot mark both answers as helpful. It is one or the other only. :-)