Python: Get index of dictionary item in list
27,003
Solution 1
>>> from operator import itemgetter
>>> map(itemgetter('name'), li).index('Tom')
0
>>> map(itemgetter('name'), li).index('Pam')
2
If you need to look up a lot of these from the same list, creating a dict as done in Satoru.Logic's answer, is going to be a lot more efficent
Solution 2
You may index the dicts by name
people = [ {'name': "Tom", 'age': 10}, {'name': "Mark", 'age': 5} ]
name_indexer = dict((p['name'], i) for i, p in enumerate(people))
name_indexer.get('Tom', -1)
Related videos on Youtube
Author by
dkgirl
Updated on January 02, 2020Comments
-
dkgirl over 4 years
I have a list li:
[ {name: "Tom", age: 10}, {name: "Mark", age: 5}, {name: "Pam", age: 7} ]
I want to get the index of the item that has a certain name. For example, if I ask for "Tom" it should give me: 0. "Pam" should give me 2.
-
Keith over 13 yearsAny reason you don't just use a dictionary to begin with?
-
-
0xc0de over 12 years+1, I didn't know this. I had assumed that this problem is too trivial to have a library function like
itemgetter
and always looped over the dict items :D -
Vincent De Smet almost 7 yearsin python3 it seems the map needs to be wrapped in a list to provide the index method