On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Javier Montoya <jmonto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm a newbie in python and would be acknowledge if somebody could shed > some light on associative arrays. > More precisely, I would like to create a multi-dimensional associative > array. I have for example a list of students which are identified > uniquely by their student IDs. Additionally, for each student I have > some information: FirstName, LastName, etc. > > The array would have then the following form: > [StudentID] => [FirstName][LastName][Telephone]...[ ... ] > > I would like to be able to access a field directly by using a > StudentID > [StudentID][FirstName] > [StudentID][LastName] > > How could I manipulate such an array (create the array, add elements, > access data)? >
Did you try the python tutorial? Dictionaries might be what you are looking for. http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries -- regards, kushal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
