newbie: datastructure `dictionary' question

[jason]

On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:00:35 -0700, John Machin wrote:
 
> jason wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am completely new to python and I have question that I unfortunately
>> could not find in the various documentation online. My best guess is
>> that the answer should be quitte easy but I have just enterd the
>> learning phase so that means a hightend chance for stupidity and
>> mistakes on my part.
>>

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Owww.. Of course... ! Thankx for the answer and the suggestion. It really
helped me a lot. I defintely going to take the OO approach later on. 

thankx again for the quick reply.

Jason.

> You are *assigning* records = blahblah each time around. "records" will
> end up being bound to the blahblah related to the *last* record that you
> read.
> 
> You can do it item by item:
>     records[folder]['date'] = datum
>     etc
> or as a oneliner:
>     records[folder] = {'date' : datum, 'mesgbytes' :
> extrmsize(str[8:]), 'mesgcount' : 1}
> 
> When you find yourself using a dictionary with constant keys like
> 'date', it's time to start thinking OO.
> 
> class LogMessage(object):
>    def __init__(self, date, .....)
>         self.date = date
>         etc
> 
> then later:
> 
> records[folder] = LogMessage(
>                               date=datum,
>                               mesgbytes= extrmsize(str[8:]),
>                               mesgcount=1,
>                               )
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> HTH,
> John