Using dictionary to hold regex patterns?

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Gilles Ganault wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:55:48 +0000, Arnaud Delobelle
> <arnodel at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> But there is no reason why you should use a dictionary; just use a list
>> of key-value pairs:
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I didn't know it was possible to use arrays to
> hold more than one value. Actually, it's a better solution, as
> key/value tuples in a dictionary aren't used in the order in which
> they're put in the dictionary, while arrays are.
> 
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