Re: nested dictionary assignment goes too far

2006-06-26 Thread Jake Emerson
Thanks a lot Serge and Ben. Your posts were right on. I hope the weather is good wherever you are. Jake -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: nested dictionary assignment goes too far

2006-06-26 Thread Ben Cartwright
Jake Emerson wrote: > However, when > the process goes to insert the unique 'char_freq' into a nested > dictionary the value gets put into ALL of the sub-keys The way you're currently defining your dict: rain_raw_dict = dict.fromkeys(distinctID,{'N':-6999,'char_freq':-6999,...}) Is shorthand fo

Re: nested dictionary assignment goes too far

2006-06-26 Thread Serge Orlov
On 26 Jun 2006 16:56:22 -0700, Jake Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting to build a process that helps me to evaluate the > performance of weather stations. The script below operates on an MS > Access database, brings back some data, and then loops through to pull > out statistics. O