Re: Dictionary of Dicts question

2008-10-17 Thread George Sakkis
On Oct 16, 5:05 pm, John Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe had a good point! Let me describe what problem I'm trying to solve and > the list can recommend some suggestions. > > I have two text files. Each file contains data like this: > > Test file 1234 4567 8975 > > I want to compare the

Re: Dictionary of Dicts question

2008-10-17 Thread bearophileHUGS
MRAB: > for line in open(path): > fields = line.split("\t") > data[tuple(fields[ : 2])] = fields[2 : ] Keeping the key as a string may have some memory/performance advantages (not tested): for line in open(path): fields = line.split("\t") data[fields[0] + fields[1]] = map(float, i

Re: Dictionary of Dicts question

2008-10-17 Thread MRAB
On Oct 16, 11:03 pm, John Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are some sample lines. > > Text file 1 contains: > > DescribeImage   AllAdjustments.psd      0.66812636  0.046   0.426   > 0.06475 0.06475 0.005875 > DescribeImage   All_Options_Multi.psd   0.552750021219  0.046   0.355875  

RE: Dictionary of Dicts question

2008-10-16 Thread John Townsend
; DescribeImage Apple_RGB.psd"), skip the comparison test. I hope this helps describe my problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Lee Bieber Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 2:44 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Dictionary o

RE: Dictionary of Dicts question

2008-10-16 Thread John Townsend
anyone has a better idea, I'd love to hear it. -Original Message- From: Joe Strout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:49 PM To: John Townsend Subject: Re: Dictionary of Dicts question On Oct 16, 2008, at 1:19 PM, John Townsend wrote: > Accessing value

Re: Dictionary of Dicts question

2008-10-16 Thread William Purcell
I believe that myDict['TestName'] = {'NewFileName': {}, } should be myDict['TestName']['NewFileName'] = {} -Bill On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Chris Rebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, John Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I'm working with a Dictiona

Re: Dictionary of Dicts question

2008-10-16 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, John Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working with a Dictionary of Dicts. Something like this: > > myDict = { > 'TestName': { > 'FileName':{ > >

Dictionary of Dicts question

2008-10-16 Thread John Townsend
I'm working with a Dictionary of Dicts. Something like this: myDict = { 'TestName': { 'FileName':{ 'ct_in