Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:error': 0.03; 'subject:not': 0.03; 'anyway.': 0.05; 'string': 0.09; 'immutable': 0.09; 'latter': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'jan': 0.12; 'dict': 0.16; 'ids.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject:key': 0.16; 'subject:when': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'thu,': 0.19; 'meant': 0.20; '>>>': 0.22; 'separate': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'error': 0.23; '31,': 0.24; 'entries': 0.24; 'skip:{ 20': 0.24; 'define': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'wondering': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'something': 0.35; 'returning': 0.36; 'hi,': 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'sometimes': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'received:71': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'ian': 0.60; 'simply': 0.61; 'different': 0.65; 'jul': 0.74; '5:15': 0.84; 'presumably': 0.84; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'shares': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: Dict when defining not returning multi value key error Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:28:23 -0400 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-71-175-90-87.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1406863728 news.xs4all.nl 2879 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:35378 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:75457 On 7/31/2014 5:15 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Dilu Sasidharan 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'} -- Terry Jan Reedy