!-----Original Message----- !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On !Behalf Of Dave Angel !Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 6:51 AM !To: tutor@python.org !Subject: Re: [Tutor] what am I not understanding? ! !"Clayton Kirkwood" <c...@godblessthe.us> Wrote in message: !> Thanks all for the insight. I'm not sure I fully understand all of the !> code snippets, but in time... !> !> This is finally what I came up with: !> !> raw_table = (''' !> a: Ask y: Dividend Yield !> b: Bid d: Dividend per Share !> b2: Ask (Realtime) r1: Dividend Pay Date !> b3: Bid (Realtime) q: Ex-Dividend Date !> p: Previous Close !> o: Open !> Date !> ''') !> !> !> import re, string !> dict={} !> key_name = raw_table.replace('\t','\n') for each_line in !> key_name.splitlines(): !> if ':' in each_line: #this design had to !> do with a few different lines !> for key, value in [each_line.split(':')]: #see the last line !> in the data. I still don't fully !> dict[key.strip()] = value.strip() #understand the second !for !> and the square brackets. !> !> #I presume that they force the source to look and feel like a tuple or !> list, but not sure. I think they force two strings into a two items of !a tuple??? !> Please let me know if I munged bad code together:<)) ! !I dont think you want the for loop at all. It just undoes the mistake !of the extra brackets. Try replacing the for loop with ! : ! ! key, value in each_line.split(':') ! !And dedent the following line
Yep, that worked well. Thanks. I was lead to my initial line by something else not working. Clayton ! ! !-- !DaveA ! !_______________________________________________ !Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org !To unsubscribe or change subscription options: !https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
