On 8 Nov 2005 01:12:07 -0800, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I knew there was an easy way :) > >Just to satisfy my curiousity: Is there a way to do something like the >reference solution I suggest above? > If the last element in the list was a dict, then you could do something like >>> lst = ['the', 'last', 'element of this list is a dict', {'key':"key's >>> value"}] >>> ref = lst[-1] >>> ref {'key': "key's value"} >>> ref["foo"] =42 >>> ref['bar'] = 'Ni!' >>> ref {'foo': 42, 'bar': 'Ni!', 'key': "key's value"} >>> ref['key'] "key's value" >>> ref['bar'] 'Ni!' >>> del ref['key'] >>> ref {'foo': 42, 'bar': 'Ni!'} FWIW ;-) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list