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bpo-36715: Add usage note for dict.fromkeys() (GH-12974) · python/cpython@da63b32

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Create a new dictionary with keys from *iterable* and values set to *value*.

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:meth:`fromkeys` is a class method that returns a new dictionary. *value*

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defaults to ``None``.

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defaults to ``None``. All of the values refer to just a single instance,

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so it generally doesn't make sense for *value* to be a mutable object

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such as an empty list. To get distinct values, use a :ref:`dict

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comprehension <dict>` instead.

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.. method:: get(key[, default])

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