[python-win32] Help with data structure

[Tim Golden]

AW> I would like some advice on appropriate data structures 
AW> for a data mining application I have. If not the right 
AW> place, please direct me elsewhere, thanks.

Since what you're asking appears to be a general-purpose
Python question, you might get more mileage at comp.lang.python
(or its mirrors, python-list at python.org and 
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.python).
Nevertheless...

AW> 
  type data_type is array (key) of
      array1
      array2
      ...
      array21
  end type

  where:-
  - key is a combination of four server names,
  - array1 to array21 are lists of floating type values representing timing
information.

  I use 
      ky = (a, b, c, d)
      data[ky] = ??
  already, what I don't get is how to add the array elements.
<AW

I think what you're saying is that you need a dictionary
keyed on four server names whose values are lists of (in
fact 21) floating type values.

I think this is what you're after. 

# d is the dictionary - the entire dataset
# the ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd') tuples are the lists of server names - the keys
# the [1.0, ..., 8.9] lists are the floating-point values referring to
timings
#  note that the ellipsis isn't syntax: merely my disinclinatino to type 21
values
#  if the timing values were only four per list, it would be: [1.0, 2.3,
4.5, 6.7]

d = {}
d[('a', 'b', 'c', 'd')] = [1.0, 2.0, 3.5, 4.6, ..., 8.9]
d[('f', 'g', 'h', 'j')] = [2.0, 4.0, 6.5, 7.6, ..., 9.8]


Have I understood the question?
TJG


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