TypeError: object cannot be interpreted as an index

Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Wed Apr 8 06:44:54 EDT 2009


>>>>> "tleeuwenburg at gmail.com" <tleeuwenburg at gmail.com> (tc) wrote:

>tc> What, exactly, needs to be in place for an object to be a valid
>tc> dictionary key?

It must have __hash__ and __cmp__ or __eq__ methods. Newstyle classes
inherit these from object.
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