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Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs?

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"Paul Rubin" <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
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> "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> writes:
>> I like dict comprehensions, but I don't use them very often, so when I do 
>> I
>> need to look up the format.
>
> I never felt a need for them.  Do they generate better code than
>
>   d = dict((k,v) for k,v in [('name','paul'),('language','python')])  ?
>

I ran timeit, and dict comps are quite a bit quicker. This is with Python 
3.4.1 -

C:\>python -m timeit -s "x=range(65, 91); y=(chr(z) for z in x)" "dict((a, 
b) for a, b in zip(x, y))"
100000 loops, best of 3: 16.1 usec per loop

C:\>python -m timeit -s "x=range(65, 91); y=(chr(z) for z in x)" "{a: b for 
a, b in zip(x, y)}"
100000 loops, best of 3: 6.38 usec per loop

Frank

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Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2015-03-16 07:25 +0200
  Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-15 23:22 -0700
    Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2015-03-16 10:30 +0200
      Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-16 01:38 -0700
        Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2015-03-16 11:01 +0200
        Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-03-16 09:57 -0600
          Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-16 15:41 -0700
        Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2015-03-17 08:44 +0200
        Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2015-03-17 15:06 +0100
        Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-03-17 09:48 -0600
        Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2015-03-18 10:01 +0200
        Re: Dict comprehensions - improvement to docs? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-03-18 02:39 -0600

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