fromkeys

How do I create a unique value for each key using dict.fromkeys?

First, I'm new to Python, so I apologize if I've overlooked something, but I would like to use dict.fromkeys (or something similar) to create a dictionary of lists, the keys of which are provided in another list. I'm performing some timing tests and I'd like for the key to be the input variable and the list to contain the times for the r...

python dict.fromkeys() returns empty

I wrote the following function. It returns an empty dictionary when it should not. The code works on the command line without function. However I cannot see what is wrong with the function, so I have to appeal to your collective intelligence. def enter_users_into_dict(userlist): newusr = {} newusr.fromkeys(userlist, 0) retur...