rbt wrote:
> I know how to setup an empty list and loop thru something... appending
> to the list on each loop... how does this work with dicts?
>
> I'm looping thru a list of files and I want to put the file's name and
> its sha hash into a dict on each loop.
Whereas with a list you would call "append" in the loop, with a
dictionary you simply use an indexed-assignment type of access:
mydict = {}
for filename in some_list_of_filenames:
hash = sha.sha(open(filename).read()).hexdigest() # or whatever
mydict[filename] = hash
-Peter
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