New submission from PushkarVaity <iampushka...@gmail.com>:
I am using Python 3.7 with anaconda install. I am trying to write out a dictionary with similar key's. for ex: proc_dict = {'add': ('/home/file.tcl', 'args'), 'add': ('/home/file2.tcl', 'args'), 'sub': ('/home/file2.tcl', 'args')} To do this, I am using the following class definition and functions: class ProcOne(object): def __init__(self, name): self.name = name def __repr__(self): return self.name I am writing out the dictionary in the following way: proc_dict[ProcOne(proc_name)] = (full_file, proc_args) Now, the dictionary key as shown in the example at top is of string type. proc_name is the variable holding this string. The values are tuples. Both elements in the tuple are strings. When the dictionary is finally written out, the format is as below: proc_dict = {add: ('/home/file.tcl', 'args'), add: ('/home/file2.tcl', 'args'), sub: ('/home/file2.tcl', 'args')} Please note the difference from the first example. The key values don't have a ' ' quote in spite of being a string variable type. Since the string quotes are missing, it is very difficult to do post processing on this dictionary key. I am a student and I though that this is an issue because now I am not able to compare the key value with a normal string because of the missing quotes. The in or not in checking operations do not evaluate to true/false because of the missing quotes. Please let me know if this has never been reported before as I am just a novice programmer and would be a big boost to my morale :-) Also, please let me know if this issue was already known or wasn't an issue at all. ---------- components: Regular Expressions messages: 340452 nosy: PushkarVaity, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Dictionary Key is without ' ' quotes type: behavior versions: Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36653> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com