Zip Question
Stephen Hansen
apt.shansen at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 14:10:50 EDT 2009
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Victor Subervi <victorsubervi at gmail.com>wrote:
> So, because the results in sstp were duplicates ( ['prescriptions',
> 'prescriptions'] ) it only returned one result in the dict(zip()) statement.
> Weird. Bug or feature? ;)
> Thanks,
> V
Feature.
zip() returned two results, but dictionaries are mappings of keys to values.
If you duplicate a key, you don't get multiple values for that key -- you
replace the value. If you want something dictionary like which has multiple
values, try something like:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52219/
Or even this dict subclass:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440502/
HTH,
--S
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