How To Use Dictionary instead of List if using FOR loop

Robot Framework
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I want to create an dictionary for that I have following code:

${text_List}=  Create List #1st list
FOR  ${list}  IN RANGE  1  ${element_count}
  ${list_text}=  Get Text  ${list}
  Append To List   ${text_List}  ${list_text}
END

FOR  ${element}  IN RANGE  1  ${total_list_count}+1 #list count is same as  ${text_List} 1st list
  @{Text_List}  Create List
  ${web_elements}=  Get WebElements   ${xpath}
  FOR ${ele}  IN  ${web_elements}
      ${element_txt}=  Get Text  ${ele}
       Append To List  ${Text_List}   ${element_txt}
   END
END

Here How Can I create Dictionary instead of List in ROBOT framework where ${text_List} should be Key and ${Text_List} should be value like
key= ${text_List}[${1st index}
value= ${Text_List}[${1st index} same for other index position

2

Hi Leo,

As you already have Append To List I’ll assume you already have Collections Library, so you just need to use Create Dictionary and Set To Dictionary. Something like this I guess:

${text_List}=  Create List #1st list
FOR  ${list}  IN RANGE  1  ${element_count}
  ${list_text}=  Get Text  ${list}
  Append To List   ${text_List}  ${list_text}
END

FOR  ${element}  IN RANGE  1  ${total_list_count}+1 #list count is same as  ${text_List} 1st list
  ${list_text}=  Get Text  ${list}
  &{Text_Dict}  Create Dictionary
  ${web_elements}=  Get WebElements   ${xpath}
  FOR ${ele}  IN  ${web_elements}
      ${element_txt}=  Get Text  ${ele}
       # Append To List  ${Text_List}   ${element_txt}
       Set To Dictionary  ${Text_Dict}  ${list_text}  ${element_txt}
   END
END

Dave.

3

@damies13 Thanks for the response
Actually I forgot to add that

${text_List}=  Create List #1st list
FOR  ${list}  IN RANGE  3  ${element_count}+1 #count depends on element present but it will be same as ${total_list_count} below
  ${list_text}=  Get Text  ${xpath}${list}
  Append To List   ${text_List}  ${list_text}
END
#expected output= ['124', '1445', '1123', '456', '2354'] 

FOR  ${element}  IN RANGE  1  ${total_list_count}+1 #list count is same as  ${text_List} 1st list count
  @{Text_List}  Create List
  ${web_elements}=  Get WebElements   ${xpath}
  FOR ${ele}  IN  ${web_elements}
      ${element_txt}=  Get Text  ${ele}
       Append To List  ${Text_List}   ${element_txt}
   END
END

Here in the 2nd FOR loop there will be n number of matching xpath so it will get all the text values one by one then it will go to next column and so on
So i want final output values as

{'124': 'for loop text one by one for that column', '1445': 'for loop text one by one for next column', '1223': 'for loop text one by one for that next column', '456': 'for loop text one by one for that next column', '2354': 'for loop text one by one for that next column'}

Sorry for the wrong question asked earlier is this possible in robot framework
After getting all the text values column wise I want to do addition of values in dictionary

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*** Test Cases ***
Example Test Case
${text_dict}= Create Dictionary # Create an empty dictionary named ${text_dict}
FOR ${list} IN RANGE 3 ${element_count}+1
${list_text}= Get Text ${xpath}${list} # Get the text value of the ${list} element
Set To Dictionary ${text_dict} ${list_text} ${EMPTY} # Add the text value as key to the dictionary with an empty value
END

FOR  ${element}  IN RANGE  1  ${total_list_count}+1  # Loop through a range of values which is same as the count of elements in ${text_dict}
    ${web_elements}=  Get WebElements  ${xpath}  # Get a list of web elements using an xpath expression
    FOR ${ele}  IN  ${web_elements}  # Loop through the web elements
        ${element_txt}=  Get Text  ${ele}  # Get the text value of the web element
        ${key}=  Get From Dictionary  ${text_dict}  ${element}  # Get the key value from ${text_dict} using ${element} as index
        Set To Dictionary  ${text_dict}  ${key}  ${element_txt}  # Set the value of the key in ${text_dict} with ${element_txt}
    END
END 

Log Dictionary  ${text_dict}  # Log the dictionary after all the key-value pairs have been added to it

Tried with above code but got error as Dictionary does not contain key ‘1’
to get output as

{'124': 'for loop text one by one for that column', '1445': 'for loop text one by one for next column', '1223': 'for loop text one by one for that next column', '456': 'for loop text one by one for that next column', '2354': 'for loop text one by one for that next column'}
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Hi Leo,

My example was just a guess, I didn’t actually expect it to work, more importantly I was letting you know about the keywords for creating/populating a dictionary.

Without knowing what your data looks like I can only guess, but with dictionaries you don’t select values by an index number as you do in lists, rather you select them by their key.

I’ll suggest as a diagnostic step you use the Log keyword to log the dictionary before trying to retrieve a value from it, then if your test fails you can check the result of Log to see what was in the dictionary and that will give you a clue as to why you got the error.

Dave.

6

Input will be the text present on boxes in column ( like 12345) there will be lots of boxes depending on option selected

7

Looks to be in part a duplicate (for which I replied and then seen the post here after)

Ref:

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