Newbie Dictionary Question

[David Allen]

In article <jfmx6.7861$iU.1496746 at news1.rdc1.md.home.com>, "Gary Walker"
<borealis3 at home.com> wrote:

> Actually, they don't have to be ordered, so I suppose (thinking aloud here)
> that I could use a dictionary of dictionaries, but again - it seems to me
> that I'd need to dynamically create a dictionary whose name isn't known
> until runtime...

A dictionary of dictionaries doesn't sound like too
bad of an idea.  Each "key" in the toplevel dictionary
would be the name of another dictionary.  In that
way, since keys are just strings, you can have a 
bunch of dictionaries with variable names. Like:

metadict = {}  # Empty top level dictionary
user_input = get_user_input()
metadict[user_input] = {}

Now you can populate metadict[user_input] with
a bunch of keys and values.  User_input might be
something from the user or more broadly just anything
that isn't know until runtime.  (Like the value of
a config varaible or whatever)

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