[Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

[Charles Hartman]

On Feb 21, 2005, at 9:17 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
> On Feb 21, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Kevin Ollivier wrote:
>
>> 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):"?
>
> I wouldn't go down that road, I'm pretty confident that this isn't a 
> bug in Python :)
>
> -bob


-- but I'll check it anyway for my own peace of mind.

Charles Hartman