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!
