[Tutor] dictionary manipulation

[David Heiser]

Chris,
 
This looks similar to what I do for my job. I would be happy to help
you, if I can.
 
My first question is, how would you like the output to look? Can you
manually create a model of the email text you want to send?
 
My second question is, can you create the email content on the fly
instead of creating a dictionary, or are you constrained to using a
dictionary for some reason?
 
Dave
 

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From: tutor-bounces at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Hallman
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:45 AM
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Subject: [Tutor] dictionary manipulation



I need some suggestions on how to work with a dictionary. I've got a
program that builds a dictionary. I need to be able to manipulate the
different keys and data so that I can write the output to a file AND
utilize the smtplib to send the data in an email. I had problems using
the data in the dictionary, so I wrote a crude for loop to strip
characters: 

>>> print result
{'s0100swa': ['running correct IOS'], 's0300swa': ['INCORRECT running
IOS'], 's0200swa': ['running correct IOS'], 's0400swa': ['running
correct IOS']}

results= sorted(result.items ())

>>> print results
[('s0100swa', ['running correct IOS']), ('s0200swa', ['running correct
IOS']), ('s0300swa', ['INCORRECT running IOS']), ('s0400swa', ['running
correct IOS'])]

for x in range(len(results)): 
    text = repr(results[x])
    text = text.replace("'", "")
    text = text.replace("(", "")
    text = text.replace(")", "")
    text = text.replace ("[", "")
    text = text.replace("]", "")
    text = text.replace(",", ":")
    output.write(text + "\n")
    output.flush()
output.write ("\n")

I need to remove the extra characters so the file and email output isn't
difficult to read. I also need to be able to use the dictionary data so
that I can compose the message used by the smtplib.


Any suggestions?



Thanks!!


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