Python version of STL multimap?

[Alex Martelli]

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
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> Isn't this exactly what Alex Martelli posted the other day:
> 
> dict.setdefault(key, []).append(value)
> 
> in answer to the thread about sorting a dictionary by its value?

That's one possibility, yes -- a dict of lists.  But if values
are also hashable (a prereq I forgot to mention in my last post:-)
and you don't care about order (and more often you don't, though
sorting is an obvious exception:-), a dict of dicts may be better,
as per my last post.


Alex