Newbie help with array handling

[bruce peng]

use dir with list nested

for example:
{key1 : [value1, value2, value3], key2 : [value1, value2, vlaue4]}


"loial" <admin at loial.co.uk> wrote in message 
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>I am new to python and am converting an awk script to python
>
> I need to store some data in an array/table of some form
>
> keyvalue1, value1, value2, value3
> keyvalue2, value1,value2, value3
> keyvalue3, value1,value2,value3
> etc
>
> I will later need to sort in keyvalue order and also need to be able
> to check if a key already exists
>
> It is not clear how to do this in python. All the examples I see have
> just a key and a single value
>