Dictionary from a file

[Thomas Weholt]

"Peter Schopfer (aka Dr. J. - magician)" wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I have a dictionary that is too big to fit right in my program, so i was
> going to have it as a seperat file, labeled dic.py. how would i be able
> to retrieve this dictionary. wuld this work:
> 
> from dic.py import dictionary
> mydic=dic.dictionary
> 
> i am a newbie, so any help would be appreciated
> thanks
> 
> keagan

Or you could use a key-based database. Look into the shelve-docs in
www.python.org.

Thomas