Hi Phillip,

Could you provide a more complete example of what you're doing? In particular, 
I'm very confused by the idea of "pushing" items to a dict, which is an 
unordered data structure.

Here is how dictionaries work in Julia:

d = Dict()
d["foo"] = "bar"
sizehint(d, 100)
d["bar"] = "foo"

 -- John

On Aug 27, 2014, at 9:40 AM, Philip Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> I'm a little confused by the Dict() documentation because it does not seem to 
> cover pushing items to a dict. 
> 
> How would I initialize a dict of size n using sizehint then push key/value 
> pairs to it?
> 
> The pythonic syntax of syntax of dict["foo"] = "bar" seems to throw an 
> exception, and push!() doesn't make pushing key/value pairs clear. 
> 
> Dict documentation:
> http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/#Base.Dict
> 
> Thanks!

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