Dict when defining not returning multi value key error

[Ian Kelly]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 7/31/2014 5:15 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Dilu Sasidharan <dilu.seven at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am wondering why the dictionary in python not returning multi value key
>>> error when i define something like
>>>
>>> p = {'k':"value0",'k':"value1"}
>>>
>>> key is string immutable and sometimes shares same id.
>>>
>>> also if the key is immutable and have different ids.
>>>
>>> like
>>>
>>> p = {'1':"value0",'1.0':"value1"}
>>
>>
>> In this latter case note that '1' and '1.0' are not equal, so this
>> will simply result in two separate entries in the dict anyway.
>
>
> Dilu presumably meant
>
>>>> p = {1:"value0", 1.0:"value1"}
>>>> p
> {1: 'value1'}

Maybe, but it was explicitly stated that the keys were strings.