Is it possible to increment a variable in a dictionary comprehension? For a very basic example: alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' x = 1 alpha_numbers = {char: x for char in alphabet} I would like x to be x += 1 for each char in the alphabet container (a:1, b:2, c:3, etc). But every way I try to increment it inside the dictionary comprehension is invalid syntax. I know the general pattern is: {key: value for key in container} But I can't figure out how to increment the value for each key in the container. Is it possible to do it? Or is there a better way? Continue reading...
