> For example, I have a dictionary:
> dict1 = { 0x2018:u'k', 0x2019:u'd'}
>
> I assign:
> n = 0x2018
> print dict1[n]
>
> Then:
> KeyError: '0x2018'
The error is complaining that you are using a string as a key.
Are you sure you aren't assigning
n = '0x2018'
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