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Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 03:07:08 +1100
Subject: Re: Creating a list with holes
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
> The use case is that I'm parsing a XML file like this:
>
>           <Parameter Name="DefaultVersion">
>             <Values>
>               <Value>
>                 <Default>True</Default>
>               </Value>
>             </Values>
>             <Values>
>               <Value>
>                 <Current>False</Current>
>               </Value>
>             </Values>
>             <Values>
>               <Value>
>                 <Default>True</Default>
>                 <Current>False</Current>
>               </Value>
>             </Values>
>             <Values>
>               <Default>True</Default>
>             </Values>
>
> This is an existing program that is putting the data into a dict. The
> dict keys are ['DefaultVersion','Default'] and
> ['DefaultVersion','Current']. These contain lists that have the
> True/False values.

Are you assigning keys by value, or are you simply appending to the
lists? It looks to me like you could simply append another element to
both lists for each <Value> </Value> unit, with the given Default and
Current if available, or with None for any that aren't set.
Alternatively, when you get up to the <Value>, append None to each
list, and then when you see a value, assign to [-1] and overwrite the
None.

ChrisA