use dir with list nested for example: {key1 : [value1, value2, value3], key2 : [value1, value2, vlaue4]}
"loial" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I am new to python and am converting an awk script to python > > I need to store some data in an array/table of some form > > keyvalue1, value1, value2, value3 > keyvalue2, value1,value2, value3 > keyvalue3, value1,value2,value3 > etc > > I will later need to sort in keyvalue order and also need to be able > to check if a key already exists > > It is not clear how to do this in python. All the examples I see have > just a key and a single value > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list