[Tutor] List to dictionary

2006-12-06 Thread Morpheus
I'm new to programming, and trying to learn the Python language. The following code does what I want it to do, but I have not idea how it works. def scanList(names,temp): for i in names: temp[i] = 0 print temp Names = [] temp = {} I have a list of names (Names[]) and want to

[Tutor] List to dictionary question

2006-12-06 Thread Morpheus
I'm new to programming, and trying to learn the Python language. The following code does what I want it to do, but I have not idea how it works. def scanList(names,temp): for i in names: temp[i] = 0 print temp Names = [] temp = {} I have a list of names (Names[]) and want to