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Re: Nested dictionaries from a list ?

From Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Nested dictionaries from a list ?
Date 2014-12-07 23:52 +0000
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On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:01:26 -0500, Dave Angel wrote:

> On 12/07/2014 11:18 AM, Wacky wrote:

>> I've a list of users ....

> I haven't run this through the Python, so please forgive any typos.

> users = [ ....
> mess = { ....

users is redundant, as it's mess.keys()

maintaining a separate list of users and having the users as the keys in 
mess suggests redundancy, and the potential for errors if the two data 
items get out of synch. Better imo to just have the data in one place.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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Nested dictionaries from a list ? Wacky <waqar.hafiz@gmail.com> - 2014-12-07 08:18 -0800
  Re: Nested dictionaries from a list ? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-07 12:01 -0500
    Re: Nested dictionaries from a list ? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-12-07 23:52 +0000
      Re: Nested dictionaries from a list ? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-08 08:35 -0500
  Re: Nested dictionaries from a list ? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-12-07 23:49 +0000

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