On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Benshep <ben.r.sheph...@gmail.com> wrote: > (1) >>> dict = { (1,2,3) : 'text' , (5,6,7) : 'other text' } >
As I understand it, you're looking for a simple syntax for what MRAB posted: > my_dict = {1: 'text', 2: 'text', 3: 'text', 5: 'other text', 6 : 'other > text', 7: 'other text'} Since your first line of code is syntactically legal, you could do a simple check afterwards to translate it: my_dict = { (1,2,3) : 'text' , (5,6,7) : 'other text' } for k in list(my_dict.keys()): if isinstance(k,tuple): val=my_dict.pop(k) for i in k: my_dict[i]=val Tested in Python 3.2; in Python 2, the list() call is superfluous, everything else should work fine. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list