appending to dict

[Heather Coppersmith]

On 14 May 2004 02:40:00 -0700,
bucket79 at daum.net (bucket79) wrote:

> is there anyway appending to dictionary?
> list has this feature

>>>> a = []
>>>> a.append(1)
>>>> print a
> [1]

> but dictionary can't
> i wanna do like this thing
>>>> a = {1, 2}
>>>> a.append(3, 4) -> This is just my idea :@
>>>> print a
> {1:2, 3:4}

Maybe I'm missing something.  Try this:

    a = { 1:2 }
    a[ 3 ] = 4

and then check out 

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

and

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesmapping.html

HTH,
Heather

-- 
Heather Coppersmith
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