I'm not sure I completely understand what you want, but if you are using Python2.5 defaultdict might be useful. Below is some example code using defaultdict.
[code] from collections import defaultdict myvar = defaultdict(dict) myvar["cat"]["paw"] = "SomeString" myvar["dog"]["tail"] = "wags" myvar["cat"]["tongue"] = "sand-paper" myvar["mouse"]["likes"] = "cheese" [/code] The documentation can do a better job of explaining how this works than I can: http://docs.python.org/lib/defaultdict-objects.html -Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
