remove duplicates from dicts with list values

[deanhystad]

Could you please post the code that makes the dictionaries. There is no reason the result needs to look as it does. As I said, there is nothing in defaultdict that results in the dictionary you are getting, it is how your code is using the defaultdict that makes them that way. I don't see any way that you can blame this on a defaultdict.

{'SAG01112_SSAP_HA_LPM': [['OS_TYPE', 'AIX'], ['IS_COBOL', '1']]}

Should it be this?

{'SAG01112_SSAP_HA_LPM': {OS_TYPE': 'AIX', 'IS_COBOL': '1'}}