[Tutor] what am I not understanding?

[Dave Angel]

"Clayton Kirkwood" <crk at godblessthe.us> Wrote in message:
> Thanks all for the insight. I'm not sure I fully understand all of the code
> snippets, but in time...
> 
> This is finally what I came up with:
> 
> raw_table = ('''
> a: Ask	y: Dividend Yield
> b: Bid	d: Dividend per Share
> b2: Ask (Realtime)	r1: Dividend Pay Date
> b3: Bid (Realtime)	q: Ex-Dividend Date
> p: Previous Close
> o: Open
> Date
> ''')
> 
> 
> import re, string
> dict={}
> key_name = raw_table.replace('\t','\n')
> for each_line in  key_name.splitlines():
>     if ':' in each_line:				#this design had to
> do with a few different lines
>         for key, value in [each_line.split(':')]:	#see the last line
> in the data. I still don't fully
>             dict[key.strip()] = value.strip()	#understand the second for
> and the square brackets.
> 
> #I presume that they force the source to look and feel like a tuple or list,
> but not sure. I think they force two strings into a two items of a tuple???
> Please let me know if I munged bad code together:<))

I dont think you want the for loop at all. It just undoes the
 mistake of the extra brackets. Try replacing the for loop with
 :

     key, value in each_line.split(':')

And dedent the following line


-- 
DaveA