Message174507
I normally use dictionaries for configuration purposes in python, but there's a problem where I have a dictionary with many key<->values and one of the keys is repeated.
For example:
lives_in = { 'lion': ['Africa', 'America],
'parrot': ['Europe'],
#... 100+ more rows here
'lion': ['Europe'],
#... 100+ more rows here
}
will end up with animal_lives_in['lion'] = 'Europe'. There's no way to detect that I've written a mistake in the code because python won't tell me there's a duplicated key assigned. It's easy to see when you have few keys but hard when you've got many.
I think it should atleast raise a warning when this happens. |
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2012-11-02 12:27:47 | Albert.Ferras | set | recipients:
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2012-11-02 12:27:47 | Albert.Ferras | set | messageid: <1351859267.72.0.446639729186.issue16385@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2012-11-02 12:27:47 | Albert.Ferras | link | issue16385 messages |
2012-11-02 12:27:46 | Albert.Ferras | create | |
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