[Tutor] Input into lists?

[leam hall]

Hey Dave, you're right. I worked through this with a for loop and set the
contents of a dict's key as the input.

Thanks!

Leam


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:

> leam hall wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to take input from a file (CSV spreadsheet) and use the first
> > line inputs (header) as the names of lists. So far I'm not successful.
> :)
> >
> > How do I take line_list[0], the result of "line.split(',')" and use it as
> > the name of a list? Does that make sense?
> >
>
> No, it doesn't make sense.  You're trying to define a variable that has
> a name determined not by your source, but by a name in line 0 of the csv
> file.  How then are you going to use that variable?
>
> There are two possibilities:  Either you actually know those names and
> are using them in your code, or the names won't be known till runtime.
>
> If the latter, then make a dictionary of lists,
>
> mydict = {}
> for item in line_list:
>     mydict[item] = []
>
> and then populate those lists from each line of the file.
>
> Now, if you're sure you know what the names are to be, then:
>
> names = mydict["name"]
> addresses = mydict["address"]
>
> or whatever.
>
>
>
>
> --
> DaveA
>
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