On Aug 27, 12:52 pm, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Kent wrote: > > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52) > > [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2 > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>>> k = {} > >>>> k['1'] = [] > >>>> k['1'].append('Tom') > >>>> k['1'].append('Bob') > >>>> k['1'].append('Joe') > > >>>> k['1'] > > ['Tom', 'Bob', 'Joe'] > > There is only one '1' key in your example. I need multiple keys that are > all '1'. I thought Python would have something built-in to handle this > sort of thing. > > I need a true multimap: > > k['1'] = 'Tom' > k['1'] = 'Tommy' > > without Tommy overwriting Tom and without making K's value a list of > stuff to append to. That's still just a regular map.
I don't understand what a multimap does that a map of lists doesn't do. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list