[Python-Dev] d.get_key(key) -> key?
Greg Ewing
greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 06 Jun 2002 12:26:40 +1200 (NZST)
"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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