Zip Question

[Stephen Hansen]

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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