On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello again, > Thanks for the replies on my previous post, but I have a different > problem now and don't see how to deal with it in a smooth way. I'd probably use a dict with a list as the value: > <snip> > "1", "text", "aa" > "1", "text", "xx" > "2", "text2", "something else" > "3", "text3", "something else" > "3", "text3", "zz" > this is untested, and it's been a while since I've messed with the CSV module, but something like this should work, if you split the first file into 3 lists and the 2nd into two lists: for col1, col2, col3 in zip(inCol1, inCol2, inCol3): try: mydict[(col1, col2)] mydict[(col1, col2)].append(col3) except KeyError: mydict[(col1, col2)] = [col3] I think that should work. HTH, Wayne -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. - Primo Levi
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