[Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi Charles,

On Feb 21, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:

> This may be the wrong list for this question. Send me away if so, but 
> I thought I'd try here first.
>
> I'm building Mac and Windows versions of an application with a 
> dictionary as one main data structure. A dialog box lets the user type 
> a string which is then used to change the value associated with one of 
> the keys, or to generate a new key-value pair. At least if the pair is 
> new, on Windows the test
> 		if word in self.Dict:
> 			newvalue = self.Dict[word]

Out of curiosity, have you tried the has_key() dictionary method, like 
"if self.Dict.has_key(word):"?

Thanks,

Kevin