Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!gegeweb.org!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.009 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'python': 0.09; 'compact': 0.09; 'explanation': 0.09; 'python:': 0.09; 'tuple': 0.09; 'advance': 0.10; 'finished': 0.15; 'dictionaries': 0.16; 'jr.': 0.16; "o'reilly": 0.16; 'purposes.': 0.16; 'received:74.55.86': 0.16; 'received:74.55.86.74': 0.16; 'received:smtp.webfaction.com': 0.16; 'received:webfaction.com': 0.16; 'subject:dictionaries': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'examples': 0.18; 'code.': 0.20; 'all,': 0.21; 'tuples': 0.22; 'example': 0.23; 'programming': 0.23; 'testing': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; "doesn't": 0.28; 'actual': 0.28; 'ansi': 0.29; 'clever': 0.29; 'comparison': 0.29; 'python"': 0.29; 'daniel': 0.30; 'initially': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; '(and': 0.32; 'automation': 0.33; 'anyone': 0.33; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.33; 'point.': 0.33; 'tutorial': 0.33; 'or,': 0.34; 'thanks': 0.34; 'pm,': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'subject:Please': 0.36; 'test': 0.36; 'level': 0.37; 'being': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'application': 0.40; 'received:192.168': 0.40; 'provide': 0.62; 'more': 0.63; 'explanations': 0.65; 'mother': 0.65; 'real-world': 0.65; 'published': 0.71; 'replies.': 0.84; 'subject:better': 0.84; 'subject:provide': 0.84; 'numerous': 0.91 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:51:40 -0500 From: Mitya Sirenef User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 39 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1359517908 news.xs4all.nl 6979 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:34146 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:37916 On 01/29/2013 09:55 PM, Daniel W. Rouse Jr. wrote: > Hi all, > > I have recently started learning Python (2.7.3) but need a better explanation of how to use tuples and dictionaries. > > I am currently using "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz and David Ascher, published by O'Reilly (ISBN 1-56592-464-9)--but I find the explanations insufficient and the number of examples to be sparse. I do understand some ANSI C programming in addition to Python (and the book often wanders off into a comparison of C and Python in its numerous footnotes), but I need a better real-world example of how tuples and dictionaries are being used in actual Python code. > > Any recommendations of a better book that doesn't try to write such compact and clever code for a learning book? Or, can an anyone provide an example of more than a three-line example of a tuple or dictionary? > > The purpose of my learning Python in this case is not for enterprise level or web-based application level testing at this point. I initially intend to use it for Software QA Test Automation purposes. > > Thanks in advance for any replies. It's not finished yet, but you may find my text-movie tutorial on dicts useful: http://lightbird.net/larks/tmovies/dicts.html -m -- Lark's Tongue Guide to Python: http://lightbird.net/larks/ Idleness is the mother of psychology. Friedrich Nietzsche