On 5 Mar 2007 02:22:24 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following -
>
> messagesReceived = dict.fromkeys(("one","two"), {})
This will create a dictionary "messagesReceived", with all the keys
referring to *same instance* of the (empty) dictionary.
( try: messagesReceived = dict( [(k,{}) for k in ('one', 'two') ] ) )
>
> messagesReceived['one']['123'] = 11111
> messagesReceived['two']['121'] = 22222
> messagesReceived['two']['124'] = 43333
>
> This gives:
>
> {'two': {'121': 22222, '123': 11111, '124': 43333}, 'one': {'121':
> 22222, '123': 11111, '124': 43333}}
And hence the results !
HTH,
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