Dave Brueck dave at solussoftware.com
Fri Nov 15 15:08:57 EST 2002

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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Tim Peters wrote:

> [Dave Brueck]
> > It's funny what people do and don't find readable, huh? I use list
> > comps all the time because to me they are almost always more readable
> > than the equivalent code and more vertically compact as well. I
> > wouldn't mind having a dictionary comp
> 
> Do you know that dict() accepts an iterable object producing iterable
> objects producing 2 objects each?

Yup. (Skip pointed this out too) I wouldn't mind having a special syntax 
for dictionary comps, but mostly I was just voicing my opinion to the OP 
that I need such a thing far less often than list comps.

-Dave

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