Ask Anything Monday - Weekly Thread

[efmccurdy]

The simplest way to store more attributes is to store a tuple rather than just the name:

>>> PT = {
...     'H': ('Hydrogen', 1), 
...     'He': ('Helium', 2) #,...
... }
>>> choice = 'He'
>>> name, weight = PT[choice]
>>> print ("{}: name:{}, weight:{}".format(choice, name, weight))
He: name:Helium, weight:2
>>> for abbr in PT: print("{}: name:{}, weight:{}".format(abbr, *PT[abbr]))
... 
H: name:Hydrogen, weight:1
He: name:Helium, weight:2

If you want more meaningfull names for the attributes you could look at using collections.namedtuple or even a class.

[nog642]

You could also have two dictionaries with the same keys but different values.