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Re: dict: retrieve the original key by key

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Date 2011-05-15 14:19 -0700
Subject Re: dict: retrieve the original key by key
From Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1602.1305494385.9059.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 5/15/2011 6:46 AM, Christoph Groth wrote:
<snip>
>> But hey, they keys of my dictionary are actually strings, so I can use
>> the built-in intern.  Somehow, I have never stumbled accross this
>> built-in function so far.
>
> It was, however, removed in 3.x as a seldom-externally-used internal
> implementation detail.

Still exists in sys module though:
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/sys.html#sys.intern

Cheers,
Chris

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Re: dict: retrieve the original key by key Christoph Groth <cwg@falma.de> - 2011-05-15 11:11 +0200
  Re: dict: retrieve the original key by key Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-15 10:18 +0000
    Re: dict: retrieve the original key by key Christoph Groth <cwg@falma.de> - 2011-05-15 12:46 +0200
    Re: dict: retrieve the original key by key Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-15 16:53 -0400
    Re: dict: retrieve the original key by key Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-05-15 14:19 -0700
    Re: dict: retrieve the original key by key Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-05-15 18:47 -0600

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