[python-win32] Dictionary command

[Tim Roberts]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:07:26 +0500,  "Naveed Ahmed Khan" 
<naveed48 at wol.net.pk> wrote:

> Dear friends, Thanks a lot for your help my problem is solved. Though 
> I am afraid to tell you of my real blunder. I mean you must understand 
> that it's my first time with programming. I was trying to achieve the 
> following:
>
>>>>>>> dict = {}
>>>>>>> dict['boolean'] = "A value which is either true or false"
>>>>>>> dict['integer'] = "A whole number"
>>>>>>> print dict['boolean']
>>>>        
>>>>
>A value which is either true or false
>
>What I was doing was that I was writing dict = () instead of dict = {}, got
>it, I was using the wrong bracket.
>  
>

There is another problem with this.  "dict" is the name of a built-in 
type, along with "int", "str", "list", "tuple", and probably a couple 
more.  It can be used, for example, to convert a list of pairs to a 
dictionary:

    xyz = dict( ( ('boolean', True), ('integer', 3 ) ) )

By naming your variable "dict", you have hidden the built-in meaning of 
that word.  You should choose another name.

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