"Che M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Although I was not familiar with what you can do with a list such
> as you did here:
> [a for a in eventData.keys() if eventData[a] < time.time()]
This is known as a list comprehension (and is described in the
Functional
Programming topic of my tutorial - obligatory plug :-)
> I guess .keys() is a built-in method for dictionaries to return a
> list of all their values, then?
To be accurate it returns a list of the keys, the values are the
things you get when you access the dictionary using a key:
value = dictionary[key]
So you can do things like
for key in dictionary.keys():
print dictionary[key]
> By the way, what was the purpose of the line with
> time.sleep(1)
It pauses for 1 second. But i'm not sure why he wanted a pause! :-)
Alan G.
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