[Tutor] How to populate a dictionary

[Alan Gauld]

"Michiel Overtoom" <motoom at xs4all.nl> wrote

> Let me suggest some improvements. You can process all the lines in a
> textfile like this:
>
>    for line in open("dates.txt").readlines():
>        print line

Or just

for line in open("dates.txt"):
    print line.rstrip()

> So, your little homework program becomes more pythonic like this:

Spoilsport, you showed him the answer! :-)

Alan G