Is there a method in Python where I can take a list, and print out the corresponding value from a dictionary?

Question

From user input, I can make a list. It is the intention for this list to be cross-checked with the dictionary and the corresponding value to be printed in another list.

Upon inputting "food" twice, a type-error of unhashable type: "list"

What can I do to solve this problem? Either through a change in ordering or the use of novel functions? This is my code:

grocery_market = {"food": 2}

shopping_list = []

max_shop_list = 2

while len(shopping_list) < max_shop_list:
    
    item = input("Add an item: ")

    shopping_list.append(item)

    print(shopping_list)

print(grocery_market[shopping_list])

Answer 1

I think this is what you are looking for:

grocery_market = {"food": 2}

shopping_list = []

max_shop_list = 2

while len(shopping_list) < max_shop_list:
    
    item = input("Add an item: ")

    shopping_list.append(item)

    print(shopping_list)

both = [] # Create a dictionary to put our results in

for item in shopping_list:
    if item in list(grocery_market.keys()): # Check if the item exists in the grocery market
        both.append(grocery_market[item]) # Add the item to the dictionary if found in both

print(both) # Print out the results

If you want a dictionary do

both = {}

for item in shopping_list:
    if item in list(grocery_market.keys()): # Check if the item exists in the grocery market
        both[item] = grocery_market[item] # Add the item to the dictionary if found in both
print(both)

(this was the original answer)

Answer 2

Im not sure what "printed in another list" means.

But you can use lost comprehension with if statement:

print([item for item in shopping_list if item in grocery_market])

Or dict comprehension:

print({item: value for item, value in grocery_market.items() if item in shopping_list}) 

Answer 3

Seems like you want to look up the value of each item in the list. Using shopping_list_values = [grocery_market[item] for item in shopping_list] will get you that.

grocery_market = {"food": 2}

shopping_list = []

max_shop_list = 2

while len(shopping_list) < max_shop_list:
    
    item = input("Add an item: ")

    shopping_list.append(item)

    print(shopping_list)

print([grocery_market[itm] for itm in shopping_list])

This prints

Add an item: 
food
['food']
Add an item: 
food
['food', 'food']
[2, 2]

Answer 4

grocery_market = {"food": 2}

shopping_list = []

max_shop_list = 2

while len(shopping_list) < max_shop_list:

item = input("Add an item: ")

shopping_list.append(item)

print(shopping_list)

both = [] # Create a dictionary to put our results in

for item in shopping_list: if item in list(grocery_market.keys()): # Check if the item exists in the grocery market both.append(grocery_market[item]) # Add the item to the dictionary if found in both

print(both) # Print out the results