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# Kitchen.collections

## StrictDict

`kitchen.collections.StrictDict` provides a dictionary that treats `str` and `unicode` as distinct key values.

class `kitchen.collections.strictdict.` `StrictDict`

  Map class that considers `unicode` and `str` different keys

  Ordinarily when you are dealing with a `dict` keyed on strings you want to have keys that have the same characters end up in the same bucket even if one key is `unicode` and the other is a byte `str`. The normal `dict` type does this for ASCII characters (but not for anything outside of the ASCII range.)

  Sometimes, however, you want to keep the two string classes strictly separate, for instance, if you’re creating a single table that can map from `unicode` characters to `str` characters and vice versa. This class will help you do that by making all `unicode` keys evaluate to a different key than all `str` keys.

  See also

  `dict` for documentation on this class’s methods. This class implements all the standard `dict` methods. Its treatment of `unicode` and `str` keys as separate is the only difference.

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