Dictionary & data

[kbass]

"Garry Knight" <garryknight at gmx.net> wrote in message
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| In message <mqK5c.22047$8G2.9439 at fe3.columbus.rr.com>, kbass wrote:
|
| > I have retrieved data from a database and I want to place this data into
a
| > dictionary or something like a HashMap (in Java).  Can someone point me
to
| > an example?
|
| Here's most of what you'll need to handle dictionaries:
|
| d1 = {}                         # create empty dictionary
| d2 = {"one": 1, "two": "two", 3: "three"} # create and populate dictionary
| d3 = {1: 'spam', {'a': 'b'}}    # nesting
| d2["two"] = 42                  # adding, changing
| d3[1]['a'] = 'c'                # changing value in nested dictionary
| x = d2['two']                   # fetch using index
| y = d3[1]['a']                  # fetch from nested dictionaries
| cnt = len(d2)                   # get no. of key/value pairs
| del d2[3]                       # remove key/value
| for k in d2.keys():             # loop over keys
| for v in d2.values():           # loop over values
| for k,v in d2.items():          # loop over key/value pairs
| d = d2.keys; d.sort()           # get sorted list of keys
|
| It's probably a good idea to work your way through the tutorial here:
| http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/tut/tut.html
|
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| Garry Knight
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Thanks for the information. At least you weren't rude about it.

kbass