How to have the variable evaluated in dict function?-CodePudding

This is what I have

TEST_KEY = "test_key"

def get_dict():
   return dict(TEST_KEY = "test_value")

print(get_dict())

This will print out {'TEST_KEY': 'test_value'}

but I want it evaluate to {'test_key': 'test_value'}

Is there a way to achieve this, to have python not evaluate TEST_KEY inside the dict function as a literal String but instead as the variable defined earlier?

CodePudding user response：

Very close! But the way you're assigning the key and value is not quite right.

Try changing dict to {} and = to : like below. This will use the variable value as the key.

TEST_KEY = "test_key"

def get_dict():
   return {TEST_KEY: "test_value"}

print(get_dict())