OMG please help

[Martin P. Hellwig]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:14:58 +0100, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> 
>> As Dennis already pointed out I like to use dictionaries in these cases,
>> so I would use sand = dict() instead of sands = list() and would do
>> sand[i] = pygame.image.load(name)
>>
>> Then you can retrieve the content by doing sand[your_number].
> 
> If the keys are just the integers 0...n inclusive, then why bother with 
> the extra overhead of a dict when you get all the functionality you need 
> from a list?
> 
> 
> 
Just a matter of preference in my case no other good reason. Although I 
do have a tendency to misuse dict all over the place, but on the other 
hand it keeps my stuff readable for others :-)

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