Level 1Exercise #18

Index records by ID

Convert user dictionaries into one dictionary keyed by user id.

Sample Test Cases

Example #1

Input:index_by_id([{"id": 7, "name": "Mira"}])

Output:{7:{'id':7,'name':'Mira'}}

Reveal Reference Solution

def index_by_id(records: list[dict]) -> dict[int, dict]:
    return {record['id']: record for record in records}

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