Problem with Lists & Index command

[Steven D. Majewski]

On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Benjamin Schollnick wrote:

> But, the most obvious question, is.....
> 
> Can dictionaries be made & manipulated from
> variables?
> 
> > tcmvalues = { 'EFGHI':1,
> >               'JKLMN':2,
> >               'ABCD':3,
> >             }
> 
> i.e.
> 	tcmvalues.append ( entry:entry3)
> 

   tcvalues[entry]=entry3 


 
> Please keep in mind, that I don't know anything about
> dictionaries... The book I'm using hasn't hit 'em yet....
> (I'm not done reading yet)


Linear search is usually the slowest algorithm. 
That's why they put indexes and tables-of-contents in books,
so they can be accessed non-sequentially! ;-) 



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