append to the end of a dictionary

[Yves Glodt]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Yves Glodt <y.glodt at sitasoftware.lu> writes:
>> that means I can neither have a dictionary with 2 identical keys but
>> different values...?
> 
> No.
> 
>> I would need e.g. this:
>> (a list of ports and protocols, to be treated later in a loop)
>>
>> ports = {'5631': 'udp', '5632': 'tcp', '3389': 'tcp', '5900': 'tcp'}
>> #then:
>> for port,protocol in ports.iteritems():
>> ________print port,protocol
>> ________#do more stuff
>>
>> What would be the appropriate pythonic way of doing this?
> 
>     ports = [('5631', 'udp'),
>              ('5632': 'tcp'),
>              ('3389': 'tcp'),
>              ('5900': 'tcp')]
> 
>     for port,protocol in ports:
>         print port, protocol  # ...
> 
> You'd append with
> 
>    ports.append(('2345', 'tcp'))
> 
> note the double set of parentheses since you're appending a tuple.

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