GTXY20 wrote:
>
> This seemed to work:
>
> def transFn(c):
> transfile = open('translate.txt', 'r')
> records = transfile.read()
> transfile.close()
> lines = records.split()
> transDict = {}
> for line in lines:
> key, value = line.split(',')
> transDict[key] = value
> try:
> return transDict[c]
> except KeyError:
> return c
Yikes! This is re-reading translate.txt every time transFn() is called,
i.e. once for every key in data!
Kent
>
> for key in data.keys():
> data[key] = map(transFn, data[key])
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