[Tutor] creating dictionary from a list

[Saad Bin Javed]

On 04/14/2013 12:08 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 13/04/2013 19:45, Saad Javed wrote:
>>
>>              for item in lst:
>>                   if
>>
>>
>> item.startswith(('Mon','Tue','____Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat','Sun'__))__:
>>                       myDict[item] = []
>>                       saveItem = item
>>                   else:
>>                       myDict[saveItem].append(item.____strip())
>>
>> Returns:
>>   File "gcalcli_agenda_test.py", line 38
>>      if item.startswith(('Mon','Tue','__Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat','Sun'))__:
>>                                                                        ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>
>
> Please compare your original line with the line above and note the
> differences.  That'll account for the syntax error, which appears to
> have been introduced by your email client.
>
This is what I'm using:

for item in lst:
	if item.startswith(('Mon','Tue','____Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat','Sun'__))__:
		dict[item] = []
		saveItem = item
	else:
		dict[saveItem].append(item.____strip())

gives:
  File "gcalcli_agenda_test.py", line 39
     if 
item.startswith(('Mon','Tue','____Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat','Sun'__))__:
                                                                       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax