Stephanie:
Welcome. The "Python idea" here is to allow a broader range of types as
keys to a dictionary. The gap appears to be that certain types (like
set) "don't work" as keys (or rather their identities not values work),
but this is a misunderstanding. A set is mutable: it is as if, in an
ordinary dictionary (lexically sorted), one were to allow changes to the
spelling of a word while keping the definition. It's not unreasonable to
do, but the entry is now potentially in the wrong place and ought to be
re-inserted so someone can find it.
Others have rightly suggested python-list as a place you could explore
how to construct the data structure you need, using existing features of
Python. However, I'll just mention that frozenset is worth a look.
Jeff Allen
On 17/03/2019 16:35, Savant Of Illusions wrote:
I am in desperate need of a dict similar structure that allows sets
and/or dicts as keys /and/ values. My application is NLP conceptual
plagiarism detection. Dealing with infinite grammars communicating
illogical concepts. Would be even better if keys could nest the same
data structure, e.g. set(s) or dict(s) in set(s) or dict(s) of the
set(s) or dict(s) as key(s).
In order to detect conceptual plagiarism, I need to populate a data
structure with if/then equivalents as a decision tree. But my
equivalents have potentially infinite ways of arranging them
syntactically/and/ semantically.
A dict having keys with identical set values treats each key as a
distinct element. I am dealing with semantics or elemental equivalents
and many different statements treated as equivalent statements
involving if/then (key/value) or a implies b, where a and/or b can be
an element or an if/then as an element. Modeling the syntactic
equivalences of such claims is paramount, and in order to do that, I
need the data structure.
Hello, I am Stephanie. I have never contributed to any open source. I
am about intermediate at python and I am a self-directed
learner/hobbyist. I am trying to prove with my code that a particular
very famous high profile pop debate intellectual is plagiarizing
Anders Breivik. I can show it via observation, but his dishonesty is
dispersed among many different talks/lectures. I am dealing with a
large number of speaking hours as transcripts containing breadcrumbs
that are very difficult for a human to piece together as having come
from the manifesto which is 1515 pages and about half copied from
other sources. The concepts stolen are rearrangements and
reorganizations of the same identical claims and themes. He
occasionally uses literal string plagiarism but not very much at once.
He is very good at elaboration which makes it even more difficult.
Thank you, for your time,
Stephanie
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