[Tutor] use of the newer dict types

[Alan Gauld]

On 26/07/13 22:55, Jim Mooney wrote:

>> bigBox = [ {1:2,3:4}, ['a',2,;freddy',True], (1,2,3)  ]
>
> That is totally cool. I see something here every day that I know will
> be useful. Although Python choked on the semicolon in front of freddy.

Oops, my bad. It should, of course be a quote sign.

> And using True in place of 1 is sneakily pedagogical ;')

It's not 'in place of' 1, it is a totally different value and type.
It's only a happy coincidence that bool(1) returns True. So does 
bool(-9) after all...


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