Array design question

[Paul Rubin]

Peter Slizik <peter.slizik at pobox.sk> writes:
> Simple PHP code
> 
> a[1] = 'aaa'
> a[2] = 'bbb'
> a[3] = 'ccc'
> 
> will in Python read
> 
> a.append('aaa')
> a.append('bbb')
> a.append('ccc')

Just use a dictionary:

  a = {}
  a[1] = 'aaa'
  a[2] = 'bbb'
  a[3] = 'ccc'

> Simple PHP code
> 
> while( !eof() ) {
>      line = readline();
>      (number, text) = split(line);
>      array[number] = text;
> }
> 
> seems untranslatable into Python. 

  a = {}
  for line in file:
    number, text = line.split(' ')
    a[number] = text