On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:00:53 -0700, "Livin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you saying that each child dictionary actually has its own 'key', > not just the items within it? I don't quite understand "its own 'key'." There is a main dictionary. The keys come from replacing spaces with plusses in item[5]. The values are another dictionary. The keys of this other dictionary are the strings 'Group', 'Status', etc. The values of this other dictionary are item[2], item[3], etc. > The goal is to create a dictionary with many dictionaries in it. > - each child dictionary will hold a single 'device' and its related > attributes. Agreed. Call this the parent dictionary. I called it devDict. > - I want to name the child dictionaries the same as their device name > so it is easy to call them from within the dictionary. The names of the child dictionaries exist as keys in the parend dictionary. > - also, they dictionary will be dynamic, thus the # of devices is > always changing so they need to be created on-the-fly. Yes, child dictionaries can be created on the fly, and be manipulated and managed within the parent dictionary. HTH, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
