Re: [Tutor] dictionary values in strings

2005-05-20 Thread William O'Higgins
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:47:50PM +0100, Max Noel wrote: > >On May 19, 2005, at 20:49, William O'Higgins wrote: > >>I am trying to discover the syntax for call on a dictionary of >>lists by >>key and index. >> >>The data structure looks like this: >> >>dol = {'key1':['li1','li2','li3'],'key2':['

Re: [Tutor] dictionary values in strings

2005-05-19 Thread Max Noel
On May 19, 2005, at 20:49, William O'Higgins wrote: > I am trying to discover the syntax for call on a dictionary of > lists by > key and index. > > The data structure looks like this: > > dol = {'key1':['li1','li2','li3'],'key2':['li1','li2','li3'],\ > 'key3':['li1'li2,'li3','']} > > The keys

Re: [Tutor] dictionary values in strings

2005-05-19 Thread Bernard Lebel
Indeed, dictionaries don't have a .key attribute. Instead, use: # Get list of values for 'key1' aList = dol[ 'key1' ] This would return the list of values you have assigned to 'key1' in the dictionary. Once you got that list, you can look in the list to find out the index of 'lil1' and return i

[Tutor] dictionary values in strings

2005-05-19 Thread William O'Higgins
I am trying to discover the syntax for call on a dictionary of lists by key and index. The data structure looks like this: dol = {'key1':['li1','li2','li3'],'key2':['li1','li2','li3'],\ 'key3':['li1'li2,'li3','']} The keys are passed to a function as arguments, and I want the value of the specif