[Python-Dev] d.get_key(key) -> key?

[Greg Ewing]

"Daniel 'eikeon' Krech" <eikeon@eikeon.com>:

> Ideally it would be nice not to have to store it as part of the
> value.

You could keep a separate dictionary mapping each
"canonical" value to itself, and use that for
normalising things before looking up the main
dictionary.

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