Accessing value inside nested dictionaries [duplicate]

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As always in python, there are of course several ways to do it, but there is one obvious way to do it.

tmpdict["ONE"]["TWO"]["THREE"] is the obvious way to do it.

When that does not fit well with your algorithm, that may be a hint that your structure is not the best for the problem.

If you just want to just save you repetative typing, you can of course alias a subset of the dict:

>>> two_dict = tmpdict['ONE']['TWO'] # now you can just write two_dict for tmpdict['ONE']['TWO']
>>> two_dict["spam"] = 23
>>> tmpdict
{'ONE': {'TWO': {'THREE': 10, 'spam': 23}}}

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