George Sakkis wrote:
> far too often I use the idiom dict(zip(keys,values)), or
> the same with izip. How does letting dict take two positional
> arguments sound ?
I think the dict constructor is already a bit too complicated, and
would prefer that it be a separate classmethod, such as
dict.zip(keys, values=itertools.repeat(None))
The default argument on values should finish the replacement of
dict.fromkeys functionality that sets and defaultdicts began.
> At least as efficient as the current alternatives.
I think it has to do better (at least by eliminating the temporary zip
object) to be worthwhile; the do-it-yourself alternative is pretty
short.
>>> # from itertools import izip as zip
>>> def dictz(keys, values): return dict(zip(keys,values))
-jJ
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