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Re: Dict when defining not returning multi value key error

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On 7/31/2014 5:15 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Dilu Sasidharan <dilu.seven@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am wondering why the dictionary in python not returning multi value key
>> error when i define something like
>>
>> p = {'k':"value0",'k':"value1"}
>>
>> key is string immutable and sometimes shares same id.
>>
>> also if the key is immutable and have different ids.
>>
>> like
>>
>> p = {'1':"value0",'1.0':"value1"}
>
> In this latter case note that '1' and '1.0' are not equal, so this
> will simply result in two separate entries in the dict anyway.

Dilu presumably meant
 >>> p = {1:"value0", 1.0:"value1"}
 >>> p
{1: 'value1'}

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Terry Jan Reedy

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