On 7/13/2011 2:13 PM Ellerbee, Edward said...
I've been beating my head against the desk trying to figure out a method to accomplish this:
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#----------------------------------------------------------------- My intent is to have the end data come out (from the example list above) in the format of 25220[56] 25224[678]
this should get you started... >>> list1=['252205','252246','252206','252247','252248'] >>> D = {} >>> for ii in list1: D.setdefault(ii[:5],[]).append(ii[5]) ... >>> print D {'25224': ['6', '7', '8'], '25220': ['5', '6']} >>> Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list