Help with Dictionaries and List of Lists

[ichabod801]

Have you ever used collections.defaultdict?

import collections

PA_dict = collections.defaultdict(list)

def addPA(paLine):
    entries = paLine.split("-")
    firstTime = 1
    for entry in entries:
        parts = entry.split(":")
        n_iter = iter(parts)
        attributesLine = next(n_iter).strip()
        permissionName = next(n_iter).strip() # PR or PW
        attributes = attributesLine.split(";")
        my_list = []
        for attribute in attributes:
            attribute = attribute.strip()
            attribute = attribute.strip("<")
            attribute = attribute.strip(">")
            attributeParts = attribute.split(",")
            name = attributeParts[0].strip()
            value = attributeParts[1].strip()
            # print(name + " " + value + " " + permissionName)
            my_list.append(value)
        print(my_list)
        PA_dict[permissionName].append(my_list)