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[QUOTE="Rhodri James, post: 3870575"]
It would have.  At the very least, it would have told us that you've
missed a common idiom.

Not posting code (or code snippets at least) makes it more likely that  
you'll
be told to RTFM, you do realise!

I'd be tempted to do it like this

dict_of_dicts = {}
current_dict = {}
current_name = "dummy"

f = open(filename)
for line in f:
   # Do something to skip blank lines
   if line == '\n':
     continue

# A normal 'key value' pair?
   if line.startswith(' '):
     # Yup.  Split apart the key and value,
     # and add them to the current dictionary
     current_dict.update([line.split()])
   elif line == 'end':
     # Wrap up what we've got and save the dictionary
     dict_of_dicts[current_name] = current_dict
     current_name = dummy
     current_dict = {}
   else:
     # New section.  Really ought to whinge if
     # we haven't ended the old section.
     current_name = line.strip()
     current_dict = {}

You can then pull the parameter sets you want out of
dict_of_dicts (you can probably think of a more meaningful
name for it, but I don't know the context you're working in).
In real code I would use regular expressions rather than
`startswith` and the equality because they cope more easily
with tabs, newlines and other 'invisible' whitespace.
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