On Aug 18, 11:44 am, TYR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sounds like a solution. I think the core of the question is as > follows; if I was to call the dict() function for each line, thus > creating a dictionary, and then rename it to dict['name'], will there > be a namespace collision on the next loop when dict() is called again? > Obviously the first dictionary will still be there, as it still has a > refcount of 1; but if it gets overwritten, will the object that the > new name refers to be overwritten too?
if data2name might give colliding names then you could use tuples as dictionary keys as shown below: import modulename datadict = dict( ((data2name(d), count), d) for count,d in enumerate(modulename.data) ) Generally, if you try and create two keys with the same name in a dictionary, they will clash and only the second value is retained. - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list