On Jan 10, 6:52 am, "Reedick, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fredrik Lundh > > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:39 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: problem of converting a list to dict > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> to see what's going on on your machine, try printing "a" after the > > >> split, but before you use it to populate the dictionary. > > > > 'print a' works > > > so what does it tell you? > > A bigger hint: > a=i.split('=') > print "'%s' splits into " % (i), a
consider: (1) using %r instead of '%s' (2) omitting the redundant space after 'into' (3) losing the redundant () around i > assert len(a) == 2 > mydict[a[0]]=a[1] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
