Peter Otten wrote:
...
If you need more than a few name value pairs it pays to put the data in a
dictionary first:
# assuming that values always consist of a single line
with open(filename) as instream:
lines = (line.strip() for line in lines)
lookup = dict(zip(lines, lines))
print lookup["Data2"]
print lookup["Data3"]
Little bit of a fluff-up here. Perhaps something like:
with open(filename) as instream:
lines = (line.strip() for line in instream)
lookup = dict(zip(lines[::2], lines[1::2]))
The other way to do it is:
lookup = {}
with open(filename) as instream:
gen = (line.strip() for line in instream)
for key in gen:
lookup[key] = next(gen)
--Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org
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