How to overcome TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'
As indicated by the other answers, the error is to due to k = list[0:j]
, where your key is converted to a list. One thing you could try is reworking your code to take advantage of the split
function:
# Using with ensures that the file is properly closed when you're donewith open('filename.txt', 'rb') as f: d = {} # Here we use readlines() to split the file into a list where each element is a line for line in f.readlines(): # Now we split the file on `x`, since the part before the x will be # the key and the part after the value line = line.split('x') # Take the line parts and strip out the spaces, assigning them to the variables # Once you get a bit more comfortable, this works as well: # key, value = [x.strip() for x in line] key = line[0].strip() value = line[1].strip() # Now we check if the dictionary contains the key; if so, append the new value, # and if not, make a new list that contains the current value # (For future reference, this is a great place for a defaultdict :) if key in d: d[key].append(value) else: d[key] = [value]print d# {'AAA': ['111', '112'], 'AAC': ['123'], 'AAB': ['111']}
Note that if you are using Python 3.x, you'll have to make a minor adjustment to get it work properly. If you open the file with rb
, you'll need to use line = line.split(b'x')
(which makes sure you are splitting the byte with the proper type of string). You can also open the file using with open('filename.txt', 'rU') as f:
(or even with open('filename.txt', 'r') as f:
) and it should work fine.
Note: This answer does not explicitly answer the asked question. the other answers do it. Since the question is specific to a scenario and the raised exception is general, This answer points to the general case.
Hash values are just integers which are used to compare dictionary keys during a dictionary lookup quickly.
Internally, hash()
method calls __hash__()
method of an object which are set by default for any object.
Converting a nested list to a set
>>> a = [1,2,3,4,[5,6,7],8,9]>>> set(a)Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'
This happens because of the list inside a list which is a list which cannot be hashed. Which can be solved by converting the internal nested lists to a tuple,
>>> set([1, 2, 3, 4, (5, 6, 7), 8, 9])set([1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, (5, 6, 7)])
Explicitly hashing a nested list
>>> hash([1, 2, 3, [4, 5,], 6, 7])Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'>>> hash(tuple([1, 2, 3, [4, 5,], 6, 7]))Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'>>> hash(tuple([1, 2, 3, tuple([4, 5,]), 6, 7]))-7943504827826258506
The solution to avoid this error is to restructure the list to have nested tuples instead of lists.
You're trying to use k
(which is a list) as a key for d
. Lists are mutable and can't be used as dict keys.
Also, you're never initializing the lists in the dictionary, because of this line:
if k not in d == False:
Which should be:
if k not in d == True:
Which should actually be:
if k not in d: