hi, sorry for late reply. i want to create a address book which has fields like name, phno, email id etc which are keys.... and i want each key to hav multiple values.... as many users will enter their names. so name key will contain many values. i am not able to store the values entered through command line. i am able to store 1st value, but wen sec value is entered first one is erased. i hope i cleard ur doubts....
Noufal wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:32 PM, sunny_plone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> hi all, >> i am a newbie in python. i was trying to work with dictionaries. i >> wanted >> to input values through command line and store the values in a >> dictionary. >> i mean for the same key , multiple values. can any1 suggest me how can i >> do >> it.....thank you.... > > I'm not sure what your code is trying to do but this kind of thing is > usually done like this. > > kev = dict() > kev.setdefault("Name",[]) > kev["Name"].append(person_name) > > > -- > ~noufal > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/help-needed-with-dictionary-tp19215907p19217025.html Sent from the BangPypers - Bangalore Python Users Group mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers