Best way to create a Dictionary from file of Key-Value pairs?

[Terry Reedy]

"Equis Uno" <ir4u4 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Assume I'm given a 100k file full of key-value pairs:
>
> date,value
> 26-Feb-04,36.47
> 25-Feb-04,36.43
> 24-Feb-04,36.30
> 23-Feb-04,37.00
> 20-Feb-04,37.00
> 19-Feb-04,37.87
>
> What is the best way to copy this data into a Dictionary object?

If you really have one value for each of numerous sequential dates, you
might be better off putting values in list that is attribute of class also
with start and stop date attributes.

TJR