"Harlin Seritt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > groups = {'IRISH' : 'green', 'AMERICAN' : 'blue'} > > I want to add another key: 'ITALIAN' : 'orange' > > How do I append this to 'groups'?
Dictionary items have no implicit sequence, so you don't "append" to one. Assigning any value to a key in the dictionary will create that key if it doesn't exist. >>> groups = {'IRISH': 'green', 'AMERICAN': 'blue'} >>> groups['ITALIAN'] = 'orange' >>> print groups {'IRISH': 'green', 'AMERICAN': 'blue', 'ITALIAN': 'orange'} Please enjoy your trip through the Python tutorial, working through the examples and understanding each one. <URL:http://docs.python.org/tut/> -- \ "It is the responsibility of intellectuals to tell the truth | `\ and expose lies." -- Noam Chomsky | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list