🔒 Updating a dictionary value by comparing values using a nested loop

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Hey there, I've been a bit stuck on getting my head around why my code here didn't work the way I created it.

# Combining two lists here which contain the status_pattern names for the keys and object UUID as values
status = {name: id for name, id in zip(status_list, status_id)}
payload = {"status": input("Status")} # input here will be: Active
for key, value in payload.items():
                match_status = status_pattern1.search(value, re.IGNORECASE)
                if match_status and value in match_status.group(0): # Here all goes well
                    for keys, val in status.items(): # My issue seems to be here. My intention is to compare the user value to the keys in status, where one of them is "Active". What I thought would happen is that the value in payload would then be updated to the corresponding value found in status. What did I do wrong here?
                        if value in keys:
                            payload["status"] = val```

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[fading vortex]

What's status_list?

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Can you show the full code including imports?

[frosty needle]

why do you need that second loop? You can simply do

if value in status:

to check if status has that key

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['Active', 'Container', 'Deprecated', 'Reserved']

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Yeah i solved it earlier by doing this

                match_status = status_pattern1.search(key)

                if match_status and match_status.group(0) in payload["status"]:
                    payload["status"] = value 

What I would like to know is why my initial code didn't work. Can't seem to figure that out

[frosty needle]

can you provide sample of the list and id

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status_id = ['AAA', 'BBB', 'CCC', 'DDD']
status = {'Active': 'AAA', 'Container': 'BBB', 'Deprecated': 'CCC', 'Reserved': 'DDD'}```

[fading vortex]

Can you post a runnable example script? With imports etc?

[frosty needle]

so the status is list is an exact match. Why do you need re for that?

I think your variable name is confusing you... your status is holding {status: value}

while payload IS the status you want?

and then you loop payload, which is holding only 1 value.

this does not make sense

this really is all you need, with names that make sense imo

id_status = {
    'Active': 'AAA', 
    'Container': 'BBB',
    'Deprecated': 'CCC',
    'Reserved': 'DDD'}

input_status = input("Status")  # input "Active"

if input_status in id_status:
    id_status[input_status] = val```

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