nested dictionary assignment goes too far

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. One such stat is the frequency of reports from the stations ('char_freq'). I hav

Re: nested dictionary assignment goes too far

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: first book about python

There have been lots of recommendations for the O'Reilly book, which is a good one. However, I would recommend "Beginning Python" by Magnus Lie Hetland. All I knew before starting Python was Mathematica, and this book was very helpful. It may seem to start out slow, but I've found that I'm going ba