objects as mutable dictionary keys
Steven Bethard
steven.bethard at gmail.com
Tue Dec 28 17:40:54 EST 2004
Peter Maas wrote:
> Peter Maas schrieb:
>
>> There was a huge and sometimes heated debate about tuples, lists and
>> dictionaries recently, and the mainstream opinion was that dictionary
>> keys must not be mutable, so lists are not allowed as dictionary keys.
>
>
> Warning, long posting (~ 100 lines)
>
[snip summary]
Yeah, that looks like a pretty decent summary to me. I wonder if this
would be worth posting on the Wiki somewhere? Maybe:
http://www.python.org/moin/DictionaryKeys
That makes it easy to point to when this issue comes up again.
Steve
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