On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Dilu Sasidharan <dilu.se...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering why the dictionary in python not returning multi value key
> error when i define something like
>
> p = {'k':"value0",'k':"value1"}
>
> key is string immutable and sometimes shares same id.
>
> also if the key is immutable and have different ids.
>
> like
>
> p = {'1':"value0",'1.0':"value1"}If you want a dict that refuses to overwrite a key-value pair, you could create one starting from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3387691/python-how-to-perfectly-override-a-dict . It's not an unreasonable behavior that you're looking for, but neither is the actual behavior. For 1 and 1.0 - they simply hash differently. Dictionaries are resizeable hash tables. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
