Alternative to "assign to a function call" in a python
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I'm trying to solve this newbie puzzle:
I've created this function:
def bucket_loop(htable, key):
bucket = hashtable_get_bucket(htable, key)
for entry in bucket:
if entry[0] == key:
return entry[1]
else:
return None
And I have to call it in two other functions (bellow) in the following way: to change the value of the element entry[1] or to append to this list (entry) a new element. But I can't do that calling the function bucket_loop the way I did because "you can't assign to function call" (assigning to a function call is illegal in Python). What is the alternative (most similar to the code I wrote) to do this (bucket_loop(htable, key) = value and hashtable_get_bucket(htable, key).append([key, value]))?
def hashtable_update(htable, key, value):
if bucket_loop(htable, key) != None:
bucket_loop(htable, key) = value
else:
hashtable_get_bucket(htable, key).append([key, value])
def hashtable_lookup(htable, key):
return bucket_loop(htable, key)
Thanks, in advance, for any help!
This is the rest of the code to make this script works:
def make_hashtable(size):
table = []
for unused in range(0, size):
table.append([])
return table
def hash_string(s, size):
h = 0
for c in s:
h = h + ord(c)
return h % size
def hashtable_get_bucket(htable, key):
return htable[hash_string(key, len(htable))]
Similar question (but didn't help me): Python: Cannot Assign Function Call
