Dictionary of Dicts question

[MRAB]

On Oct 16, 11:03 pm, John Townsend <jtown... at adobe.com> wrote:
> Here are some sample lines.
>
> Text file 1 contains:
>
> DescribeImage   AllAdjustments.psd      0.668000012636  0.046   0.426   0.06475 0.06475 0.005875
> DescribeImage   All_Options_Multi.psd   0.552750021219  0.046   0.355875        0.01525 0.017125        0.0
> DescribeImage   All_Options_Quad.psd    0.57025000453   0.046   0.314875        0.058375        0.058375        0.007875
> DescribeImage   Apple_RGB.psd   0.538999974728  0.046   0.315   0.04675 0.04875 0.0
>
> Text file 2 contains:
> DescribeImage   AllAdjustments.psd      0.7889  0.056   0.786   0.0665  0.06476 0.999
> DescribeImage   All_Options_Multi.psd   0.5527500421419 0.43154312      0.4443  0.43124 0.017125        0.0
> DescribeImage   All_Options_Quad.psd    0.5702503200453 0.046   0.34    0.058375        0.4342  0.43214
>
> Lines are tab delimited. Note, in this example text file 2 contains three lines, while text file 1 contains four lines.
>
> Where there are matching lines in each text file (e.g. "DescribeImage   AllAdjustments.psd" exists in both files), I want to compare each of the numbers from that line to the numbers in the corresponding line.
>
> If there is not corresponding line (like " DescribeImage        Apple_RGB.psd"), skip the comparison test.
>
> I hope this helps describe my problem.
>
If the first 2 fields are unique when combined, then you could use
that as the key:

data = {}
for line in open(path):
    fields = line.split("\t")
    data[tuple(fields[ : 2])] = fields[2 : ]