Zip Question

[Victor Subervi]

Ah! Thanks :)
V

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Stephen Hansen <apt.shansen at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Victor Subervi <victorsubervi at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> So, because the results in sstp were duplicates ( ['prescriptions',
>> 'prescriptions'] ) it only returned one result in the dict(zip()) statement.
>> Weird. Bug or feature? ;)
>> Thanks,
>> V
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> Feature.
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> zip() returned two results, but dictionaries are mappings of keys to
> values. If you duplicate a key, you don't get multiple values for that key
> -- you replace the value.  If you want something dictionary like which has
> multiple values, try something like:
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> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52219/
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> Or even this dict subclass:
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> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440502/
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> HTH,
>
> --S
>
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