Expandable 2D Dictionaries?

[genro]

On Jul 6, 5:43 pm, Robert Dailey <rcdai... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in creating an expandable (dynamic) 2D dictionary. For
> example:
>
> myvar["cat"]["paw"] = "Some String"
>
> The above example assumes "myvar" is declared. In order for this to
> work, I have to know ahead of time the contents of the dictionary. For
> the above to work, my declaration must look like:
>
> myvar = {"cat": {"paw":""} }
>
> I would like to not have to declare my dictionary like this, as it
> does not allow it to be expandable. I'm very new to Python (I'm a
> professional C++ programmer. Any comparisons to C++ would help me
> understand concepts).
>
> Is there a way that when I index into my dictionary using an "unknown"
> index (string), that python will dynamically add that key/value pair?
>
> Thanks.

Hi Robert
take a look to our Bag module ( http://trac.genropy.org/wiki/BagManual).
Bag is a hierarchical container that can be used as nested dictionary.
If you are interested I'll send you the module.
There is not yet a public DL link as documentation has still to be
tuned...

HTH

Giovanni