Multidimensional Dictionaries: Possible?

François Pinard pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Mon Jan 24 20:46:22 EST 2000


w6uv at hotmail.com (Jerry Gardner) writes:

> Are multidimensional dictionaries possible in Python? I'm sure they're
> possible, but I can't figure out the syntax.

> Here's how I do it in Perl:
> %dict = ();  # create empty dictionary
> $dict{$key1}{$key2} = $string;       # make an entry
> $newstring = ${dict{$key1}{$key2}};  # access an entry

dict = {}
dict[key1, key2] = string
newstring = dict[key1, key2]

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