I'd like to do something like this; iterate through a file which consists of data stored in dictionary format, one dict on each line, and read each line into a new dict using one of the values in the dict as its name...
for example: stuff = open('data.txt') for eachLine in stuff: name{} name = eachLine ....and then do something clever to extract the value of the key (name) from the line and use it as the dictionary's name. A line from data.txt would look like this: {'name' : Bob, 'species' : Humboldt, 'colour' : red, 'habits' : predatory}. Aim is to call one of them by name, and merge the values in that dictionary into a string pulled from another source. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list