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Message: [QUOTE="Larry Bates, post: 1788909"] It is almost certain that you should use either a list of dictionaries or a dictionary containing other dictionaries for this. Creation of 26 distinct dictionaries is almost never a good solution as it makes it nearly impossible to iterate over them and would make code to manipulate them unable to be generalized easily. Example: # # To create a list of dictionaries # list_of_dicts=[] for i in range(26): list_of_dicts.append({}) # # Now you can reference each dictionary as: # # list_of_dicts[0], list_of_dicts[1], ... # or import string dict_of_dicts={} for letter in string.ascii_lowercase: dict_of_dicts[letter]={} # # Now you can reference each dictionary as: # # dict_of_dicts['a'], dict_of_dicts['b'], ... Larry Bates [/QUOTE]