default environment setup

Terrence M. Brannon (brannon@jove.cs.caltech.edu)
Fri, 26 Jun 92 04:40:50 PDT

I would like to initialize a dictionary upon invocation of the python
interpreter . Is there a .python file ?

I am using the dictionary to index into the periodic table of elements
so that during the day instead of grunging through a textbook , I can
type

x = element['hydrogen']
print data_of[x]

where element = {'hydrogen':1, 'helium':2}

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terrence brannon
brannon@jove.cs.caltech.edu