Create Dict within list of dict

Question

I\'m trying to create a dict within a list of dicts. How do I build the data structure and later to fetch the data via jinja2? Here is an example:

var = {
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Answer 1

note! don't use 'path' name in your code for variable or anything as is the name of a builin module of python

use the following code. make_var function take 2 variables, the first variable is the site's name and the second variable is the directory's path which contains all the files you need to register for it. code is for Python3 only

from datetime import datetime as dt
from pathlib import Path


def make_var(site_name, pth): 
    exampledata = {'site':site_name, 'listofiles':[]}
    p = Path(pth)
    for f in p.iterdir():
        if f.is_file():
            name = f.name.replace(f.suffix, '')
            tm = dt.utcnow().strftime('%a %b %H:%M:%S %Y')
            exampledata['listofiles'].append({'time':tm, 'name':name}) 
    return exampledata