Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.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; 'explicitly': 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; 'strings.': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; '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; 'received:comcast.net': 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; '>>>>': 0.31; 'keys': 0.31; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'returning': 0.36; 'hi,': 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'sometimes': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'ian': 0.60; 'simply': 0.61; 'different': 0.65; 'stated': 0.69; 'jul': 0.74; '5:15': 0.84; 'maybe,': 0.84; 'presumably': 0.84; 'shares': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ned Batchelder Subject: Re: Dict when defining not returning multi value key error Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 07:43:49 -0400 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-50-133-228-126.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; 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: 41 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1406979844 news.xs4all.nl 2917 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:48992 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:75531 On 8/1/14 10:30 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: >> 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'} > > Maybe, but it was explicitly stated that the keys were strings. > You are right, my mistake. Apologies. -- Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com