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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:20:25 -0700
Subject: Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file
From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
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>
> Every line is now an element in list d. The question I have now is how can
> I make a dictionary out of the list d with the car manufacturer as the key
> and a tuple containing the year and the model should be the key's value.
> Here is a sample of what list d looks like:
>
> ['1899 Horsey Horseless', '1909 Ford Model T', '1911 Overland OctoAuto',
> '2003 Hummer H2', '2004 Chevy SSR']
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
>
As long as your data is consistently ordered, just use list indexing.  d[2]
is your key, and (d[1],d[3]) the key's value.

Mark
Tacoma, Washington

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cc solid;padding-left:1ex">Every line is now an element in list d. The ques=
tion I have now is how can I make a dictionary out of the list d with the c=
ar manufacturer as the key and a tuple containing the year and the model sh=
ould be the key&#39;s value. Here is a sample of what list d looks like:<br=
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e>As long as your data is consistently ordered, just use list indexing. =A0=
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</div><div style>Mark</div><div style>Tacoma, Washington</div></div>
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