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From: "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy@udel.edu>
> On 5/23/2011 1:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>
>
>> I am talking about a simple way of creating a hash/dict from an array,
>> which is so simple that there should be really a single way to do it, or
>> very few.
>
> Again, Python has such:
>
> >>> dict([['one',1],['two', 2]])
> {'two': 2, 'one': 1}


That is not an array, but a list. An array has a name and we can't do 
something like the following simple statement in Python:

l = (1, 2)
d = dict(l)

While in Perl we can do:

@l = (1, 2);
%d = @l;

But let's remember from what this discussion started. This is not a Python 
critique, because each language has its own ways.
I just wanted to show that the fact that "there is more than one way to do 
it" in Perl and that "there is a single way" in Python are just buzzwords, 
because this was an example where in Python there are many ways to do it 
while in Perl there is a single way used usually, which is also more simple.

Octavian