Re: Any way to use a range as a key in a dictionary?

[Paul Rubin]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> ...   v = theDict.get(x, NOT_RELEVANT)
> ...   if v is not NOT_RELEVANT:
> ...           print x, v

I think you'd normally do this with

     if x in theDict:
          print x, v

but the OP was asking about a different problem, involving looking up
numeric ranges, which could conceivably be very large, thus the
suggestions about interval trees and so forth.
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