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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:53:55 +0100
From: Thomas Bach <thbach@students.uni-mainz.de>
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Subject: Re: Help building a dictionary of lists
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:41:59PM +0000, Joshua Landau wrote:
> 
> Dict comprehension:
> {i:[] for i in ["Test 1", "Test 2", "Test 3"]}

In Python 2.6 this syntax is not supported. You can achieve the same
there via

dict((i, []) for i in ['Test 1', 'Test 2', 'Test 3'])

Also have a look at ``collections.defaultdict``.

Regards,
	Thomas.