How to merge lists of dictionaries

Question

With lists of dictionaries such as the following:

user_course_score = [
    {\'course_id\': 1456, \'score\': 56}, 
    {\'course_id\': 316, \'score\': 71}
]
         


        

Answer 1

dictionary is basically a list of (key, value) pairs.

in your case,

user_course_score can just be a dictionary of (course_id, score) rather than a list of dictionaries (you are just complicating it unnecessarily)

similarly, course can just be a dictionary of (course_id, name)

what you have suggested in the end is the right way :)