Mike, I'm trying to figure out dictionaries using the documentation. Clicking on "dictionary type" takes me to "2.3.8 Mapping Types -- classdict". Is that the documentation for the dictionary type? If so, I do not see an "append" or "add" or "insert" method defined in the list of methods on that page.
Here's what they list: Operation Result Notes len(a) the number of items in a a[k] the item of a with key k (1) a[k] = v set a[k] to v del a[k] remove a[k] from a (1) a.clear() remove all items from a a.copy() a (shallow) copy of a a.has_key(k) True if a has a key k, else False k in a Equivalent to a.has_key(k) (2) k not in a Equivalent to not a.has_key(k) (2) a.items() a copy of a's list of (key, value) pairs (3) a.keys() a copy of a's list of keys (3) a.update([b]) updates (and overwrites) key/value pairs from b (9) a.fromkeys(seq[, value]) Creates a new dictionary with keys from seq and values set to value (7) a.values() a copy of a's list of values (3) a.get(k[, x]) a[k] if k in a, else x (4) a.setdefault(k[, x]) a[k] if k in a, else x (also setting it) (5) a.pop(k[, x]) a[k] if k in a, else x (and remove k) (8) a.popitem() remove and return an arbitrary (key, value) pair (6) a.iteritems() return an iterator over (key, value) pairs (2), (3) a.iterkeys() return an iterator over the mapping's keys (2), (3) a.itervalues() return an iterator over the mapping's values ( -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
