[Tutor] creating dictionary from a list

[Mark Lawrence]

On 13/04/2013 19:19, Saad Javed wrote:
>
>
>     Don't fight Python, unlike this chap[1] :)  Basically if you're
>     looping around any data structure you rarely need to use indexing,
>     so try this approach.
>
>     for item in lst:
>          if
>     item.startswith(('Mon','Tue','__Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat','Sun'))__:
>              myDict[item] = []
>              saveItem = item
>          else:
>              myDict[saveItem].append(item.__strip())
>
>
> This creates a dictionary whose keys are out of order in terms of dates.
>
> {'Thu Apr 04': ['Weigh In'], 'Sat Apr 06': ['Collect NIC', 'Finish PTI
> Video'], 'Wed Apr 10': ['Serum uric acid test'], 'Sun Apr 14':
> ['Download Louis CK Oh My God', '4:00pm', 'UPS Guy'], 'Sat Apr 13':
> ['1:00pm', 'Get flag from dhariwal']}
>
> Sat Apr 13 is appearing after Sun Apr 14. How do you sort this?
>

http://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.OrderedDict

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