On Nov 5, 1:52 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prateek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been using Python for a while (4 years) so I feel like a moron > > writing this post because I think I should know the answer to this > > question: > > > How do I make a dictionary which has distinct key-value pairs for 0, > > False, 1 and True. > > How about using (x, type(x)) as the key instead of just x?
Yup. I thought of that. Although it seems kinda unpythonic to do so. Especially since the dictionary is basically a cache mostly containing strings. Adding all the memory overhead for the extra tuples seems like a waste just for those four keys. Is there a better way? I also thought of using a custom __eq__ method in a custom class which extends the dict type but decided that was even worse. Prateek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list