[kadamat]

Has anyone run into trouble using python dictionaries and having duplicate entries?

[Gladis]

kadamat, dicts can only have one value associated with any given key (but that value can be a list, if you so wish)

[kadamat]

Yes, that is how it is supposed to work
But how are the keys compared?

[Gladis]

kadamat, by hash and by ==.

[kadamat]

Like of the key is a string, how to I make sure it is checking by value
Hmm, okay then I have a problem here
I read in a file of triples
Compose a key using the first two items and insert it into a dictionary using the third as the value

[Gladis]

kadamat, are you printing the repr() of the keys?

[kadamat]

No, just the key itself as returned from the k,v iter_items

[Gladis]

kadamat, are you sure the dupes are actually dupes? Can you give an example of two keys, as printed, that you think are dupes?

[kadamat]

N::\en\@eng:aaron:baddeley||Aaron Baddeley]] [[N::\en\@eng:gregory:havret||Gregory Havret]] 2
[[N::\en\@eng:aaron:baddeley||Aaron Baddeley]] [[N::\en\@eng:gregory:havret||Gregory Havret]] 2

[Gladis]

kadamat, are you assembling a string out of two strings and using that as key? I suggest using a tuple of the two strings, instead.
or, if you are doing that, use repr(key) instead of whatever you're using now to make them into something printable.