Dictionaries with invalid key?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:
> Usually a dictionary conists of a key and a value. I thought that keys
> are strings. Now I wrote some code that managed to create a key that is
> a number instead of a string. Is this a bug or is this ok?

   Dictionary's key may be any immutable object. Tuple, for example.

> -- 
> bye,
>    Gerhard
> email: sparhawk at eunet.at
>        g.gruber at xsoft.co.at

Oleg.
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