>Assuming your data and the dictionary are keyed by a common set of keys:
> >for key in descriptions: > if abs(data[key] - mean(data)) >= m * std(data): > del data[key] > del descriptions[key] Heh, yeah sometimes the obvious is too simple to see. I used a dict comp to rebuild the results with the comparison. Thanks! jlc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
