Richard Ettema wrote:

Hi,

I have a form that passes info as a record with the following type of info:

[a: 'bob', b: 'silver', a: 'trev', b: 'gold', a: 'nig', b: 'bronze', a:'lee', b:'gold']

You cannot have a dictionary (a keyed list) with the same key multiple times like above. keys MUST be unique!

I want to work thru this info and pick out all the records with a key 'b' equal to 'gold'. I want to place this into a new key-value record (or list?) to use later. So it would create:

[a: 'trev', b: 'gold', a:'lee', b:'gold']

I cant work out how to do this. My main problem is inserting key names to make the key-value pairs.

The value at each key could be a list as in: { a: ['trev', 'lee'], b: ['gold', 'gold'] } A python script could create a dictionary of lists like so: PARAMETERS: records r = {} for rec in records: if r.has_key(rec.key): r[rec.key].append(rec.value) else: r[rec.key] = [rec.value] return r -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan@kaivo.com `------------------>