Thanks so much, Jack. You've given me much to chew on. I began phone_book.py without much need for it -- I already had an RTF file with 786 lines that I "grepped" using a script I wrote with Tutor help long ago. I used an RTF file instead of a text file so that any URLs in it would be live. But I wanted to refresh what little I used to know about dicts and see where I could go with it. It turns out to be something I'll actually use for quickly looking up phone numbers of people (friends, relatives, doctors, etc.) and some businesses, and the occasional address. For adding key=value items to the data file, values can be copied as is from the RTF file. It'll probably have fewer than 100 entries. Your idea doesn't seem efficient for me -- lots of typing and editing. But very interesting! I'll probably have fewer than 100 entries.
Your pickle examples give me a start on using the cPickle module. Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
