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[Kalle Svensson]

Sez Glen Bunting:
> Thanks, now that I've got that figured out, how do I put teh values key and
> value into a dictionary.  
> 
> >>> import string
> >>> dict {}
> >>> CONFIG = open('webconf.txt').readlines()
> >>> for eachLine in CONFIG:
> ...     key, value = string.split(eachLine, ';')
> ...	  dict = {key, value}

Try  dict[key] = value on the last line.

> but when I do that, only the last values are saved in the dictionary.  All
> the previous ones are erased.  

That's because your code binds a new dictionary (created by {key, value})
to the variable dict each time through the loop.
More about dictionaries:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesmapping.html

Hope I'm right this time...

Peace,
  Kalle
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