Bryan Fodness wrote: > Thank you. This works well. I am still trying to figure out the pros > and cons of using an array, dictionary or list.
Array is specialized, you probably want list or dict. Use list when you want a sequence of items indexed by sequential integers. Lists - preserve order - are fast for indexed lookup - are relatively slow (O(n)) for adding, deleting and searching (though for small lists this should not be a consideration) Use dict when you want to index by something other than sequential integers Dicts - do not preserve order - are fast for adding, deleting and lookup - can be used to replace a list search with a lookup I'm sure there is more that I have missed. For your case I would start with a list, I don't see anything requiring a dict. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
