On Jul 6, 5:43 pm, Robert Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in creating an expandable (dynamic) 2D dictionary. For > example: > > myvar["cat"]["paw"] = "Some String" > > The above example assumes "myvar" is declared. In order for this to > work, I have to know ahead of time the contents of the dictionary. For > the above to work, my declaration must look like: > > myvar = {"cat": {"paw":""} } > > I would like to not have to declare my dictionary like this, as it > does not allow it to be expandable. I'm very new to Python (I'm a > professional C++ programmer. Any comparisons to C++ would help me > understand concepts). > > Is there a way that when I index into my dictionary using an "unknown" > index (string), that python will dynamically add that key/value pair? > > Thanks.
Hi Robert take a look to our Bag module ( http://trac.genropy.org/wiki/BagManual). Bag is a hierarchical container that can be used as nested dictionary. If you are interested I'll send you the module. There is not yet a public DL link as documentation has still to be tuned... HTH Giovanni -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list