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From: John Bokma <john@castleamber.com>
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Subject: Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development?
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Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> writes:

> I forget the exact question you asked, but this list is not the
> doc. The doc section on dicts gives dict(list_of_key_value_pairs) as
> the one true way, given such an input. The Perl way cannot be clearer
> and can only be shorted if it uses something shorter that dict().

my %hash = @list_of_key_value_pairs;

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John Bokma                                                               j3b

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