This post is in reference to the hurricane data exercise in the data scientist career path.
I am trying to create a dictionary where the values are dictionaries themselves. This exercise is giving me a hard time, but I feel like I’m so close. To explain, I am trying to iterate through names and for each name, create and add a dictionary that contains the data for that hurricane. dict_in_dict is supposed to be the final result, but I don’t understand why there is a syntax error (foo is just the name again).
def unite_lists(names, months, years, max_sustained_winds, areas_affected, damages, deaths):
new_dict = {}
dict_in_dict = {}
lists = [names, months, years, max_sustained_winds, areas_affected, damages, deaths]
key = ["Name", "Month", "Years", "Max sustained winds", "Areas Affected", "Damages", "Deaths"]
value = []
for i in range(len(names)):
name = names[i]
for data in lists:
value.append(data[i])
new_dict = {name:value for name, value in zip(key, value)}
for foo in names:
dict_in_dict.update(foo:new_dict)
value = []
new_dict = {}
return dict_in_dict