hash tables in python?

[Erik Max Francis]

apark at cdf.toronto.edu wrote:

> I'm thinking that there has to be a better way to program this...

Yep.  Dictionaries are a builtin type.

http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node7.html#SECTION007400000000000000000

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