Retrieve a value of a key based on another value(of key) in the list of dictionaries

Question

question about list of dicts: """this is the list of dicts for employees and salaries(pls note this is an example and want this in python memory instead of any other form such as #sql table)"""

complete_emp_list = [{'emp_name':'abc','salary':1000}, {'emp_name':'def','salary':2000},{'emp_name':'xyz','salary':3000}]

Question: how do I retrieve the salary for a given emp name as part of below query.

cursor.execute("SELECT emp_name, {%d}*0.1 AS ret_bonus FROM employee_resigned", salary)

Please note I don't want to run this query for all the employees, but only for those in the employee_resigned table (1 or 2 emp) and get the salary from python list(using only list of dicts in the format given above) (this is very hypothetical example :))

Answer 1

Just build a dictionary that maps employee names to their salaries:

salaries = {d['emp_name']: d['salary'] for d in complete_emp_list}

Then it's a simple matter of indexing: salaries[employee_name] .