What is the best way to store a string variable as a string value in a dictionary?

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Below I am trying to put a string variable named authToken and place it in the dictionary called header so I can call it using the requests module

if currentTime >= authExpTime: getAuthToken() else: header = {'Content-Type':'application/json','Authorization':'OAUTH2 access_token=authToken'} print header for i in metricsCollected: callURL = apiURL + i + "?samepletime=" print callURL apiResponse = requests.get(apiURL, headers=header) apiResponse.json()

It seems like you are asking how to get the value of authToken into the string that is the value of the 'Authorization' key. Is this what you are asking? — hlongmore
– hlongmore, Commented Mar 11, 2016 at 18:12
I don't quite understand what you're asking here. Could you elaborate? — That1Guy
– That1Guy, Commented Mar 11, 2016 at 18:12
@That1Guy I think he has a key/value pair (OAUTH2 access_token=authToken) within another key/value pair ('Authorization':'OAUTH2 access_token=authToken'). A nested dictionary ({"OAUTH2 access_token" : "authToken"}) would be better but I didn't know whether his script would allow that or not. — jDo
– jDo, Commented Mar 11, 2016 at 18:16

hlongmore · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-11 18:15:25Z

There are many ways you could do this. Some are more pythonic than others. The way I would probably do it is:

header = { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Authorization': 'OAUTH2 access_token=%s' % (authToken) }

I think this is better than my answer since it avoids the confusion/inefficiencies of += for string operations.

jDo · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-11 18:12:54Z

Like so?

if currentTime >= authExpTime: getAuthToken() else: header = {'Content-Type':'application/json','Authorization':'OAUTH2 access_token='} header["Authorization"] += authToken print header for i in metricsCollected: callURL = apiURL + i + "?samepletime=" print callURL apiResponse = requests.get(apiURL, headers=header) apiResponse.json()

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