"Dinesh B Vadhia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote keywords[1] = [1, 4, 6, 3] keywords[2] = [67,2] keywords[3] = [2, 8, 5, 66, 3, 23] etc.
The keys and respective values (both are integers) are read in from a file. For each key, the value is append'ed until the next key. Here is the code. ............. >>> keywords = {} >>> with open("x.txt", "r") as f: You don;t need the with statement for this, just do for line in open('x.txt'): keywords[k], second = map(int, line.split()) So keywords[k] and second are both ints keywords[k].append(second) But you can't append to an int. Try creating a temp value first: first, second = map(int, line.split()) keywords[k] = [first] # creates a list value instead of an int keywords[k].append(second) HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor