Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Nov 12 17:46:26 CET 2009

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Richard Saunders <richismyname at ...> writes:
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> Basically, the thought was there might be a place for a slightly better
> literal for OrderedDict
> in Python 3.0
>  od = OrderedDict([('a',1),('b':2)])  # seems clumsy

How about something like:

od = OrderedDict.from_literal("""
  {'a': 1, 'b': 2} """)

Of course, you need to hook/reimplement a full-blown parser :)

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