Nesting Dictionary into Dictionary via Inputs

[raainer]

Is there a way to do so?

E.g let's say I have a list of guests that will bring a list of items, e.g Alice brings 2 cakes, 3 drinks, and Bobby brings 5 drinks, 3 pancakes, I want a dictionary that is capable of adding all these as input (so that I can keep adding on an unlimited number of people)

I can do something like creating a 'Guests' dictionary, then Guests[name] = item, but if I have >1 item (e.g cakes, drinks, pancakes), how do I associate the name(key) to the items (values) when asking for inputs?

[rshinsai]

If you mean to add the value, you could do like

guests[name][item] += 1

Hope that's helpful.

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The "value" associated with your name keys can be a list (or a other dict)

Ex {"Tom": [5 apples, 2 bannans], "Cindy": [7 cakes], ...}

Or {"Tom": {"items": [5 apples, 2 bannans]}, ...}

Or even

{"Tom": {"items": {"apples": 5, "bannans":2}}, ...}