Question

In PHP I can name my array indices so that I may have something like:

$shows = Array(0 => Array('id' => 1, 'name' => 'Sesame Street'),                 1 => Array('id' => 2, 'name' => 'Dora The Explorer')); 

Is this possible in Python?

Answer 1

This sounds like the PHP array using named indices is very similar to a python dict:

shows = [   {'id': 1, 'name': 'Sesaeme Street'},   {'id': 2, 'name': 'Dora The Explorer'}, ] 

See http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries for more on this.