Dropdown options, pass a variable

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Hi, I am try to pass a variable into options dropdown attribute so I can load any variable I want in it.
Let’s say I want to use a file to create a list of options like this :

def get_countries():
    """Load all countries from a file"""
    countries = []
    with open('./data/countries.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as countries_file:
        for country in countries_file:
            country_data = country.split('|')
            countries.append(
                {
                    'label': country_data[0],
                    'value': country_data[1].strip('\n')
                }
            )
    return countries

Assuming the file look like somthing like this :

AF|Afghanistan
AL|Albania
DZ|Algeria
...

I put the return value of my function get_countries in a variable countries :

But when I try to put it in the dropdown attribute :

dcc.Dropdown(
            id='country',
            options=[countries],
            value='AF'
        ),

I get the error :

Invalid argument options[0] passed into Dropdown with ID “country”.
Expected object.
Was supplied type array.

I would like to know if it is possible, and if it is : how to proceed. I tried to get the object Options from html.Option(), but it doesn’t work.

Thank you for your help.

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Hi @thibaultmagy and welcome to the Dash community!

Assuming that your function works correctly and if you print(countries) right before the return, you get something that looks like:
[{‘label’: ‘AF’, ‘value’: ‘Afghanistan’}, {‘label’:‘AL’, ‘value’: ‘Albania’}, … etc]

Instead of: options=[countries],

Try: options=get_countries(),

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Hi thank you for your answer, it works.

The return looked exactly like this.

Thank you again.

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