New submission from Albert Ferras:
I normally use dictionaries for configuration purposes in python, but there's a
problem where I have a dictionary with many key<->values and one of the keys is
repeated.
For example:
lives_in = { 'lion': ['Africa', 'America],
'parrot': ['Europe'],
#... 100+ more rows here
'lion': ['Europe'],
#... 100+ more rows here
}
will end up with animal_lives_in['lion'] = 'Europe'. There's no way to detect
that I've written a mistake in the code because python won't tell me there's a
duplicated key assigned. It's easy to see when you have few keys but hard when
you've got many.
I think it should atleast raise a warning when this happens.
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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 174507
nosy: Albert.Ferras
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: evaluating dict with repeated keys gives no error/warnings
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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