key not found in dictionary

KraftDiner bobrien18 at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 22 14:49:56 EDT 2006


I have a dictionary and sometime the lookup fails...
it seems to raise an exception when this happens.
What should I do to fix/catch this problem?

    desc = self.numericDict[k][2]
KeyError: 589824   <---- This is the error that is being produced,
because there is no key
589824.




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