[Tutor] need a hint

[Alan Gauld]

On 04/12/13 10:22, Wolfgang Maier wrote:

>
>          # instead of senateInfo[lastName] = state,
>          # which builds a simple state dictionary
>          if lastName in senateInfo:
>              senateInfo[lastName].append((firstName, state))
>          else:
>              senateInfo[lastName] = [(firstName, state)]

Or replace those last four lines with

senateInfo[lastName] = senateInfo.get(
                         lastName,[]).append((firstname,state))

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