josetjr wrote...
>Hello, I am taking python this summer, and have run into a problem.
Let me suggest some improvements. You can process all the lines in a
textfile like this:
for line in open("dates.txt").readlines():
print line
Furthermore, if you have a string in the form of "ABC=DEF", you can split it
like this:
key,value=s.split("=")
To enumerate the keys of a dictionary in alphabetical order, you can use:
for k in sorted(d):
print k
So, your little homework program becomes more pythonic like this:
history={}
for line in open("dates.txt").readlines():
line=line.strip("\n\"") # clean the line a bit; strip off the newline
and quotes
date,event=line.split("=")
history[date]=event
for k in sorted(history):
print k,history[k]
Have a nice day,
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