Michael Langford wrote: > A neater way to do it looks like: > > dic2 = {} > countOfVars=40 > for line in file('foo.dat'): > tokens = line.split() > dval = tokens[0] > ls = [] > for i in range(1,countOfVars+1): > ls.append(float(tokens[i])) > dic2[dval]=tuple(ls) > print dic2
This is not very idiomatic. You can iterate tokens like this: ls = [] for token in tokens: ls.append(float(token)) This can easily be replaced with a list comprehension: ls = [ float(token) for token in tokens ] or it can be written using map() (one of the few situations where I prefer map() to a list comp): ls = map(float, tokens) Kent Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor