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Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs?

From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs?
Date 2015-03-16 17:57 +1100
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"Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> writes:

> This is what the library reference says about lists -
[…]

> If you did not know about dict comprehensions, there is nothing to
> tell you that they even exist.
>
> I feel that it should be mentioned.

It *is* mentioned, but not in the standard library documentation.
Comprehensions are a language feature, not a library module.

You seem to expect that the standard library documentation should *also*
teach every aspect of syntax. I don't agree.

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Ben Finney

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Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-03-16 17:57 +1100

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