On Oct 12, 11:32 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a file containing following data. But the dimension can be > different. > > A B C D E F G > 3 4 1 5 6 2 4 > 7 2 4 1 6 9 3 > 3 4 1 5 6 2 4 > 7 2 4 1 6 9 3 > . > . > . > . > > What is the best approach to make a column vector with the name such > as A B, etc?
Use a dict. dict objects are the main way we map names to objects on the fly. Simple example: columns = {} columns["A"] = [3,7,3,3] columns["B"] = [4,2,4,2] Filling in the columns with data from your file is left as an exercise. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list