In <[email protected]> Steve Sawyer <[email protected]> writes:
> What I think I want to do is to construct a dictionary using the > column names as the index value, and a list containing the various > attributes (data type, lenghth, precision). If you're using just the column name as the dictionary key, make sure there are no duplicate column names among all your tables. > If this is a good approach, I ran into a problem populating the > dictionary as I couldn't seem to figure out how to make the update() > method work by passing the name property of the row object; I kept > getting a "keyword can't be an expression" error. The general syntax for assigning to a dictionary is: my_dictionary[key] = value What are you trying that isn't working? -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs [email protected] B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
