In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Martin Marcher wrote:
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>> On 2008-08-26 00:32:20, cnb wrote:
>>> Are dictionaries the same as hashtables?
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>Python does not have a "one key maps to a list of values"-semantics - which
>I consider the sane choice...
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>However, you can have that using the defaultdict for example:
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>listdict = defaultdict(list)
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>listdict[key].append(value)
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>Diez
? I'm lost. As I understand your terms, Python's dictionaries
map keys to objects, but you would prefer that Python's
dictionaries map keys only to lists of values. That *sounds*
like a complexification, at best. Are you trying to make a
point about implementation aligning with semantics?
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