On 11May2016 14:00, khalil zakaria Zemmoura <zemmoura.kha...@gmail.com> wrote:
Suppose we have a dict
Dic = { True: 'yes', 1: 'No'}
According to the Python 3 documentation, the keys must have a unique value
so True is converted to integer because of the type coercion (boolean are
subtype of integer) so boolean are winded to integer to be compared.
As it happens. The core lesson here is that usually you want all your
dictionary keys to be the same type.
If that's what happen, why when running Dic.items() it return [(True,
'No')] instead of [(1, 'No')]
Because the dictionary is assembled sequentially (probably an implementation
detail, though since Python expressions are evaluated left to right it might
possibly be guarrenteed).
So:
First 'yes' is loaded into the dict with the key True.
The 'No' is loaded, using key 1. This finds the same slot as True, and puts
'No' there. Without changing the key value. So true now has 'No' stored with
it.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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