On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Give up on file-IO, ie dont use the EXTERNAL file
>
> nam1;F;Y
> nam2;M;N
> nam3;F;Y
> nam4;M;N
> halo;M;Y
> rock;M;N
> nam1;F;N
>
> But ASSUME you have the internal python data structure
> names = [("nam1", "F", "Y"), ("nam2", "M", "N")] # complete the list
Well it may be better to write that as
names = [("nam1", "F", True), ("nam2", "M", False), etc]
ie represent Y by boolean True rather than the string "Y" etc
though you could get bitten by the fact that python booleans are
strange in that True is True but all kinds of things are True-ish
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