Hi Fredrik... so, this still doesn't get me an array called 'cat', or 'dog'
or do i somehow use stuff to add/extract the vals...??? thanks -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fredrik Lundh Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 2:27 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: list/tuple/dict question bruce wrote: > a dict doesn't seem to work, as it is essentially a series of key/values, > which isn't exactly what i want... so what do you think a variable namespace is? as usual, Python works best if you use it to write Python program, and in Python, the right way to store a collection of name/value pairs is to use a dictionary: stuff = {} foo = [] foo.append('cat') foo.append('dog') stuff[foo[1]] = [] </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
