Adding variables to dictionary, same format

Question

I want to make the variables that a user inputs, add to the dictionary. But I want it to be added the way that it currently looks:

bookLogger = [
    {'BookName': 'Noise', 'Author': 'Daniel Kahneman', 'Process': 'Reading' },
    {'BookName': 'Hunting Party', 'Author': 'Lucy Foley', 'Process': 'Reading'},
    {'BookName': 'Superintelligence', 'Author': 'Nick Bostrom', 'Process': 'Not Reading'}
]

The code that I have tried

def AddingBooks():

    #User inputs what they want to add tot he library
    BName = input("Please enter the book name: ")
    BAuthor = input("Enter the books Author: ")
    BProcess = input("Are you reading, not reading or haven't started ")

    #Want to add this to the bookLogger but in the same format that the
    #bookLogger dictionary is in
    bookLogger['BookName'] = BName
    bookLogger['Author'] = BAuthor
    bookLogger['Process'] = BProcess

The error that comes up is list indices must be integers or slices, not str for the bookLogger['BookName'] = BName line.

NOTE: Not sure how to change it + not sure if that will add it to the bookLogger the way I want it to.

Answer 1

bookLogger is a list that has a dictionary. So You have to push or append the dictionary to the list.

bookLogger = [
{'BookName': 'Noise', 'Author': 'Daniel Kahneman', 'Process': 'Reading' },
{'BookName': 'Hunting Party', 'Author': 'Lucy Foley', 'Process': 'Reading'},
{'BookName': 'Superintelligence', 'Author': 'Nick Bostrom', 'Process': 'Not Reading'}
]

def AddingBooks():
    #User inputs what they want to add tot he library
    BName = input("Please enter the book name: ")
    BAuthor = input("Enter the books Author: ")
    BProcess = input("Are you reading, not reading or haven't started ")
    
    #Want to add this to the bookLogger but in the same format that the bookLogger 
    bookLogger.append({"BookName": BName, "Author": BAuthor, "Process": BProcess})

Answer 2

The error is due to using string as a list index. i.e bookLogger['BookName']. 'BookName' is an index. But you cannot use such string values for the list. If your logger is

bookLogger = [
    {'BookName': 'Noise', 'Author': 'Daniel Kahneman', 'Process': 'Reading' },
    {'BookName': 'Hunting Party', 'Author': 'Lucy Foley', 'Process': 'Reading'},
    {'BookName': 'Superintelligence', 'Author': 'Nick Bostrom', 'Process': 'Not Reading'}
]

You can write a function this way.

def AddingBooks():

    # User inputs what they want to add tot he library
    BName = input("Please enter the book name: ")
    BAuthor = input("Enter the books Author: ")
    BProcess = input("Are you reading, not reading or haven't started ")

    # Want to add this to the bookLogger but in the same format that 
      the
    # bookLogger dictionary is in

    #first create a dictionary
    log = {'BookName': BName,
           'Author': BAuthor,
           "Process": BProcess}

    #bookLogger is a list so you have to append individual log to it
    bookLogger.append(log)