Map Dictionary Values

Introduction

In Python, a dictionary is a collection of key-value pairs. Sometimes, we need to transform the values of a dictionary using a function. This challenge will test your ability to create a function that takes a dictionary and a function as arguments and returns a new dictionary with the same keys as the original dictionary and values generated by running the provided function for each value.

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Map Dictionary Values

Write a function map_values(obj, fn) that takes a dictionary obj and a function fn as arguments and returns a new dictionary with the same keys as the original dictionary and values generated by running the provided function for each value.

def map_values(obj, fn): return dict((k, fn(v)) for k, v in obj.items())

users = { 'fred': { 'user': 'fred', 'age': 40 }, 'pebbles': { 'user': 'pebbles', 'age': 1 } } map_values(users, lambda u : u['age']) ## {'fred': 40, 'pebbles': 1}

Summary

In this challenge, you learned how to create a function that takes a dictionary and a function as arguments and returns a new dictionary with the same keys as the original dictionary and values generated by running the provided function for each value. This is a useful technique for transforming the values of a dictionary.

Map Dictionary Values

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Map Dictionary Values

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