I have a nested list, and for each list inside I want to create a dictionary that will contain another dictionary with the words related to a certain word as a key and the times they appear as the value. For example:
from
sentences = [["i", "am", "a", "sick", "man"],
["i", "am", "a", "spiteful", "man"],
["i", "am", "an", "unattractive", "man"],
["i", "believe", "my", "liver", "is", "diseased"],
["however", "i", "know", "nothing", "at", "all", "about", "my",
"disease", "and", "do", "not", "know", "for", "certain", "what", "ails", "me"]]
part of the dictionary returned would be:
{ "man": {"i": 3, "am": 3, "a": 2, "sick": 1, "spiteful": 1, "an": 1, "unattractive": 1}, "liver": {"i": 1, "believe": 1, "my": 1, "is": 1, "diseased": 1}...}
with as many keys as there are distinct words in the passage.
I’ve tried this:
d = {}
for row in sentences:
for words in rows:
if words not in d:
d[words] = 1
else:
d[words] += 1
But is only the way to count them, how could I use d as a value for another dictionary?
>Solution :
sentences = [["i", "am", "a", "sick", "man"],
["i", "am", "a", "spiteful", "man"],
["i", "am", "an", "unattractive", "man"],
["i", "believe", "my", "liver", "is", "diseased"],
["however", "i", "know", "nothing", "at", "all", "about", "my",
"disease", "and", "do", "not", "know", "for", "certain", "what", "ails", "me"]]
# "as many keys as there are distinct words in the passage"
# Well then we need to start by finding the distinct words.
# sets always help for this.
# first we flatten the list. If you don't know what this is doing,
# search "flatten nested list Python". This is a common pattern:
flat_list = [term for group in sentences for term in group]
# now use set to find distinct words
distinct_words = set(flat_list)
# variable for final dictionary
result = {}
# define this function first. See invocation below
def find_related_counts(word):
# a nice way to do counts us with
# setdefault. If the term has already
# been counted, then it just increments.
# otherwise, it will create the key and
# initialise it to the default
related_counts = {}
for group in sentences:
# is "word" related to the terms in this group?
if word in group:
# yes it is! add the other terms:
for other in group:
# except, presumably, the word itself
if other != word:
related_counts.setdefault(other, 0)
related_counts[other] += 1
return related_counts
# for each word we have a key, and must find the value
for word in distinct_words:
# when dealing with nested anythings, it helps to
# make a function, so you don't have so much
# nesting in one place and separate things out
# nicely instead
value = find_related_counts(word)
result[word] = value
print(result)
print(result["man"])
OUTPUT:
{'spiteful': {'i': 1, 'am': 1, 'a': 1, 'man': 1}, 'and': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'unattractive': {'i': 1, 'am': 1, 'an': 1, 'man': 1}, 'nothing': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'diseased': {'i': 1, 'believe': 1, 'my': 1, 'liver': 1, 'is': 1}, 'sick': {'i': 1, 'am': 1, 'a': 1, 'man': 1}, 'man': {'i': 3, 'am': 3, 'a': 2, 'sick': 1, 'spiteful': 1, 'an': 1, 'unattractive': 1}, 'do': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'believe': {'i': 1, 'my': 1, 'liver': 1, 'is': 1, 'diseased': 1}, 'i': {'am': 3, 'a': 2, 'sick': 1, 'man': 3, 'spiteful': 1, 'an': 1, 'unattractive': 1, 'believe': 1, 'my': 2, 'liver': 1, 'is': 1, 'diseased': 1, 'however': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'certain': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'an': {'i': 1, 'am': 1, 'unattractive': 1, 'man': 1}, 'my': {'i': 2, 'believe': 1, 'liver': 1, 'is': 1, 'diseased': 1, 'however': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'a': {'i': 2, 'am': 2, 'sick': 1, 'man': 2, 'spiteful': 1}, 'am': {'i': 3, 'a': 2, 'sick': 1, 'man': 3, 'spiteful': 1, 'an': 1, 'unattractive': 1}, 'however': {'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'about': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'not': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'for': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'liver': {'i': 1, 'believe': 1, 'my': 1, 'is': 1, 'diseased': 1}, 'know': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'at': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'all': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'disease': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'ails': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'me': 1}, 'me': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'what': 1, 'ails': 1}, 'what': {'however': 1, 'i': 1, 'know': 2, 'nothing': 1, 'at': 1, 'all': 1, 'about': 1, 'my': 1, 'disease': 1, 'and': 1, 'do': 1, 'not': 1, 'for': 1, 'certain': 1, 'ails': 1, 'me': 1}, 'is': {'i': 1, 'believe': 1, 'my': 1, 'liver': 1, 'diseased': 1}}
{'i': 3, 'am': 3, 'a': 2, 'sick': 1, 'spiteful': 1, 'an': 1, 'unattractive': 1}