On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:12:54AM -0600, Mark Adam <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > A colleague pointed me at Doug's excellent article here:
> > ...which made me a little sad, I suspect I'm not the only one who finds:
> >
> > a_dict = dict(
> > x = 1,
> > y = 2,
> > z = 3,
> > ...
> > )
> >
> > ...easier to read than:
> >
> > a_dict = {
> > 'x':1,
> > 'y':2,
> > 'z':3,
> > ...
> > }
>
> Hey, it makes me a little sad that dict breaks convention by allowing
> the use of unquoted characters (which everywhere else looks like
> variable names) just for a silly typing optimization.
It doesn't. It's a call (function call or or a class instantiation)
and it's not dict-specific: function(a=1, b=None)...
Oleg.
--
Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ [email protected]
Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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