In article <mailman.4871.1388794533.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks, but I know all that about dicts. I need to use a list for > compatibility with existing code. Generalizing what I think the situation is, "A dict is the best data structure for the parsing phase, but I need a list later to hand off to legacy interfaces". No problem. Parse the data using a dict, then convert the dict to a list later. I haven't been following all the details here, but just wanted to point out that using different data structures to hold the same data at different phases of a program is a perfectly reasonable approach. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
