string bug/oddity?

[William Park]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:45:15PM -0400, Peter Hansen wrote:
> Oktay Safak wrote:
> > 
> > First I constructed a dictionary a. Here it is:
> > 
> > {'yas': 23, 'ad': 'veli', 'soyad': 'guzel'}
> > >>> for x in a.keys():
> >         if type(a[x])!="string": print x+repr(a[x])
> >         else: print x+a[x]
> > 
> > 
> > yas23
> > ad'veli'
> > soyad'guzel'
> > 
> > I just want to concatenate the two strings without the
> > quotes as in the last line. 
> 
> Anything wrong with this, simpler, approach?
> 
> >>> for x in a.keys():
> ...     print '%s%s' % (x, a[x])

This is better solution.  But, for educational purpose, in the original
code, 'type()' returns special type values, not a regular string.  So,
what your want is
    type(a[x]) != type("")

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