I had a post yesterday on just that. Anyways, I always love it when what can be a really annoying problem, reduces into as something simple and elegant like a python dict. (in general, I find dictionaries rock).
I remember a similar eureka, when some time ago I found it really neat that split w/no args works on whitespace words. Or, things like min and sort actually travel down levels of data structures for you. Or, when one realizes things like "in" works on all sorts of sequences even filehandes, or you can treat gzipped files just like normal files, or coolness of cStringIO, or startswith and endsmith methods on strings, or . . . Hmm, I wonder if there is a page of the little python coolnesses. I recall one of python annoyances. john -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
