(objects as) mutable dictionary keys

Peter Maas peter at somewhere.com
Mon Jan 17 07:27:05 EST 2005


Antoon Pardon schrieb:
>   Dictionary lookup with mutable types like lists is a source of
>   unpleasant surprises for the programmer and therefore impossible in
>   Python.
> 
> 
> It is not impossible in Python. It may be discouraged but it is not
> impossible since I have already done so.

Wouldn't this raise a TypeError? Or did you wrap them with an object?

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