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Hey guys, please let me know if you have an answer to this (copy and paste into your IDE):

x = {
    0: "value 0",
    1: "value 1",
    2: "value 2",

    True: False
}
print(x.get(0))
print(x.get(1))
print(x.get(2))

# output will look like this:
# value 0
# False
# value 2

For some reason, only x.get(1) returns "False," and any other number or character will return with its dict definition. Does anyone know why that is? Thanks!

Print x to check what your dict looks like

x = {0:"value 0", 1:"value 1", 2:"value 2", True:False}
print(x)

Output:
{0: 'value 0', 1: False, 2: 'value 2'}

TLTR: Key True is same as 1 thus last seen wins.

Check
https://peps.python.org/pep-0285/

Quote:The bool type would be a straightforward subtype (in C) of the int type, and the values False and True would behave like 0 and 1 in most respects (for example, False==0 and True==1 would be true) except repr() and str().

Quote:6. Should bool inherit from int?

=> Yes.

In an ideal world, bool might be better implemented as a separate integer type that knows how to perform mixed-mode arithmetic. However, inheriting bool from int eases the implementation enormously (in part since all C code that calls PyInt_Check() will continue to work – this returns true for subclasses of int). Also, I believe this is right in terms of substitutability: code that requires an int can be fed a bool and it will behave the same as 0 or 1. Code that requires a bool may not work when it is given an int; for example, 3 & 4 is 0, but both 3 and 4 are true when considered as truth values.

Thank you so much! That makes a lot of sense now.

htran3

buran

htran3