Alternate Syntax for dictionary elements

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <LNz07.1653$h45.11048 at news.uk.colt.net>,
Graham Ashton <graham at coms.com> wrote:
>In article <3b421cec.5073656 at news.t-online.de>, "Gerson Kurz"
><gerson.kurz at t-online.de> wrote:
>>
>> 2 reasons for using dicts rather than classes:
>> 
>> - You can easily create the data an object stores *dynamically*, i.e.
>> from user input.
>
>What can you do dynamically with a dictionary that you can't do with
>setattr() and getattr()? (that's a real question, not a cocky way of
>pointing out you might have missed something)

Well, you can use any immutable type as the key.
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