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We can have a list or a dictionary as a value of an item in a dictionary, but we cannot use these data types as keys of the dictionary. If we try to, we will get a TypeError.
For example:
This code will yield:
TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'The word “unhashable” in this context means that this ‘list’ is an object that can be changed.
Dictionaries in Python rely on each key having a hash value, a specific identifier for the key. If the key can change, that hash value would not be reliable. So the keys must always be unchangeable, hashable data types, like numbers or strings.
Instructions
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Run the code inside script.py. You should get an error:
TypeError: unhashable typeMake the code run without errors by flipping the items in the dictionary so that the strings are the keys and the lists are the values
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