> Firstly, to remove one possible source of confusion, change the name of > your dictionary ... "mydict" or "fred" ... anything but "dict" > > Next, after you have created the dictionary and added items to it, do this: > print len(fred) > print len(fred.items()) > nitems = 0 > for k, v in fred.iteritems(): > nitems += 1 > print nitems > > If by this stage you haven't worked out what you are doing wrong, post > an exact copy/paste of the MINIMAL code that exhibits the "multiple > instances of same key in <dictionary>.iteritems()" problem
i did not work out what i was doing wrongly. but now it works. i hate <bleep>ing magic! but thanks for making me permute. randy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
