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Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file

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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:
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> ['1899 Horsey Horseless', '1909 Ford Model T', '1911 Overland OctoAuto',
> '2003 Hummer H2', '2004 Chevy SSR']
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> 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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Creating a dictionary from a .txt file "C.T." <swilks06@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 08:52 -0700
  Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 03:06 +1100
    Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file "C.T." <swilks06@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 10:19 -0700
      Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 04:22 +1100
    Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file "C.T." <swilks06@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 10:19 -0700
  Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 09:20 -0700
    Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file "C.T." <swilks06@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 09:52 -0700
      Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-31 13:31 -0400
        Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-03-31 14:41 -0400
          Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-31 17:37 -0400
          Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-04-01 11:41 +0000
            Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-01 23:53 +0000
              Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> - 2013-04-02 00:28 +0000
              Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-04-03 12:55 +0000
    Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file "C.T." <swilks06@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 09:52 -0700
  Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-03-31 12:38 -0400
    Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file "C.T." <swilks06@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 10:28 -0700
  Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-03-31 15:04 -0400
  Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file "C.T." <swilks06@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 16:53 -0700
    Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-01 20:12 -0400

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