[Tutor] creating dictionary from a list

[Mark Lawrence]

On 13/04/2013 19:45, Saad Javed wrote:
>
>              for item in lst:
>                   if
>
>         item.startswith(('Mon','Tue','____Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat','Sun'__))__:
>                       myDict[item] = []
>                       saveItem = item
>                   else:
>                       myDict[saveItem].append(item.____strip())
>
> Returns:
>   File "gcalcli_agenda_test.py", line 38
>      if item.startswith(('Mon','Tue','__Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat','Sun'))__:
>                                                                        ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>

Please compare your original line with the line above and note the 
differences.  That'll account for the syntax error, which appears to 
have been introduced by your email client.

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