newbie question about self and eval

[Prateep Siamwalla]

OK, this one works.....

self.__dict__[token[0]].append(token[1])

Prateep Siamwalla wrote in message <86jjkj$jmu$1 at news.inet.co.th>...
>Hello o' wise pythoners,
>
>I have a simple question to ask any generous pythoners out there:
>
>I have a simple tab delim text file:
>test.txt
>---------
>fee    harry
>fi    joe
>fo    jack
>fum    jim
>fee    john
>fo    sam
>
>I trying to make a class to read in these values and stuff them into lists
>which this class keeps
>
>(warning, spacing migth be off)
>-------
>class myclass:
>
>    def __init__(self,filename='c:\\test.txt'):
>        self.fee = []
>        self.fi = []
>        self.fo = []
>        self.fum = []
>        f = open(filename,'r')
>        rl = f.readlines()
>        f.close()
>        for lines in rl:
>            token = string.split(lines,'\011')
># do something more efficient than this !!!
>            bucket = token[0]
>            if bucket =='fee':
>                self.fee.append(token[1])
>            elif bucket == 'fi':
>                self.fi.append(token[1])
>            elif bucket == 'fo':
>                self.fo.append(token[1])
>            else:
>                self.fum.append(token[1])
>
>---------
>I know there must be a more effective way of appending items into the
>various class lists, (which probably involves eval or something similar,
but
>I've tried some feeble ideas, none of which seem to fly.
>
>I've tried self.eval(token[0]).append(token[1])  but that obviously failed
>in a big way.  Could someone please show me the way?
>
>Thanks in Advance,
>teep
>
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