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Date Tue, 4 Jun 2013 13:15:18 +0100
Subject RE: Beginner question
From Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com>
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On 4 Jun 2013 12:57, "Carlos Nepomuceno" <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com>
wrote:
>
> >On 4 Jun 2013 12:28, "Carlos Nepomuceno" <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com>
wrote:
> [...]
>
> >> What's going on? Is there a way to make dict() to resolve the
variables?
> >Well yes.
> >dict(**{a:0,b:1})
> >The dict() constructor makes a dictionary from keyword arguments. So you
just have to feed it keyword arguments using **.
> >And if you're in a bad day,
> >dict(**locals())
>
> That's exactly the same!
> >>>dict(**{a:0,b:1})=={a:0,b:1}
> True
>
> Are there any benefits from using dict() instead of {}?

Other than being able to create a dict from a list of tuples, and copying a
dict using dict(anotherdict.items()), not that I know of.

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Beginner question eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-06-03 20:39 -0700
  RE: Beginner question Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-04 09:46 +0300
    Re: Beginner question John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-06-04 00:53 -0700
      RE: Beginner question Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-04 11:17 +0300
  Re: Beginner question Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2013-06-04 10:45 +0300
    Re: Beginner question John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-06-04 00:57 -0700
      Re: Beginner question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 18:24 +1000
      Re: Beginner question Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-06-04 11:23 +0200
      RE: Beginner question Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-04 14:23 +0300
        Re: Beginner question Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-04 12:35 +0000
          RE: Beginner question Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-04 15:51 +0300
            Re: Beginner question Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-07 02:21 +0000
      RE: Beginner question Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 12:34 +0100
      RE: Beginner question Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-04 14:53 +0300
        Re: Beginner question Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-04 12:25 +0000
          RE: Beginner question Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-04 15:37 +0300
          RE: Beginner question Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 13:47 +0100
      RE: Beginner question Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 13:15 +0100
      Re: Beginner question Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-06-04 13:16 -0400
  Re: Beginner question Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2013-06-04 02:13 -0700
    Re: Beginner question Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-06-04 09:16 -0400
  Re: Beginner question Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 20:43 +0100
  Re: Beginner question eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-06-05 20:42 -0700

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