[dictionaries] Forum Topics

**Introduction** Hi guyz today I am going to writing a tutorial on dictionaries in Python....As per as getting comments from my readers I'll try to make this tutorial short.... **Layout** 1.What are dictionaries? 2.Why dictionaries? 3.How to declare/make dictionaries in Python? 4.What all you can do with a dictionary? 5.Interesting …

How would I find the amount of characters in a string and then use that to print a certain amount of some character that you choose. For example: [CODE=Python] a = 'string' # this holds 6 characters print '*' * # amount of characters in string [/CODE]

I'm working on learning GUI development, I'm attempting to utilize the GUI for a user to search the dictionary: my code so far is[CODE]from tkinter import * class Interface(Frame): def __init__(self, master): super(Interface, self).__init__(master) self.grid() self.create_widget() def create_widget(self): self.pwrd= Label(self, text='Address Book') self.pwrd.grid(row=0, column=2) self.searchlbl= Label(self, text='Enter Search Query:') self.searchlbl.grid(row=2, …

So I've finally fixed up the functionality of an address book I've been writing (not on to utilizing a GUI yet of course though.)However to save or reclaim the data from the last use of the address book I, obviously, need to write and reclaim it from a .txt file, …

I am currently having problems displaying a file correctly once i have written a dictionary to the file. For this program the input file needs to have the format: ID: Date: Dayskept: ProductName e.g. 1:12/12/2011:12:A This is fine the first time I read the example file into a dictionary, but …

Hi I am new to the forums, and somewhat new to python. I'm trying to make a Text Based Adventure game. I don't have an error, but a bug. This is the code: [code]import descriptions inventory = [] gold = 0 acts = {"north":"hi"} def start(acts): print(descriptions.start) rm_a(acts) def rm_a(acts): …