On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:41:59PM +0000, Joshua Landau wrote: > > Dict comprehension: > {i:[] for i in ["Test 1", "Test 2", "Test 3"]} In Python 2.6 this syntax is not supported. You can achieve the same there via dict((i, []) for i in ['Test 1', 'Test 2', 'Test 3']) Also have a look at ``collections.defaultdict``. Regards, Thomas.