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dictionary() -> dict()

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Barry Warsaw 2001-10-31 15:50:36 +00:00
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@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ Rationale
There are times when you have some data arranged as a sequences of
length-2 sequences, and you want to turn that into a dictionary.
In Python 2.2, the dictionary() constructor accepts an argument
that is a sequence of length-2 sequences, used as (key, value)
pairs to initialize a new dictionary object.
In Python 2.2, the dict() constructor accepts an argument that is
a sequence of length-2 sequences, used as (key, value) pairs to
initialize a new dictionary object.
However, the act of turning some data into a sequence of length-2
sequences can be inconvenient or inefficient from a memory or
@ -55,11 +55,11 @@ Rationale
Semantics
The semantics of dictionary comprehensions can actually be
demonstrated in stock Python 2.2, by passing a list comprehension
to the builtin dictionary constructor:
The semantics of dict comprehensions can actually be demonstrated
in stock Python 2.2, by passing a list comprehension to the
builtin dictionary constructor:
>>> dictionary([(i, chr(65+i)) for i in range(4)])
>>> dict([(i, chr(65+i)) for i in range(4)])
is semantically equivalent to