Pierre Fortin pfortin at pfortin.com
Thu Sep 9 18:37:05 EDT 2004

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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:20:24 +0200 Alex wrote:

> Diez B. Roggisch <deetsNOSPAM at web.de> wrote:
>    ...
> > map2 = dict(map.items() + [(str(i), v) for i, v in enumerate(vals)])
> 
> An equivalent ctor call that's slightly better, IMHO:
> 
> map2 = dict([ (str(i),v) for i,v in enumerate(vals) ], **map)
> 
> Don't ignore the power of dict's keyword arguments...
> 
> > Not perfect, but IMHO better than your eval-based solution.
> 
> I agree, mine is just a tiny improvement on your post, IMHO.
> 
> 
> Alex

Thanks for that; but it's not what I wanted...   (see original post)

I was hoping to use the likes of:  "%(key)*.*f" % map
however, unlike with the non-(key) formats, there appears to be no way to
specify a "*.*" size when a map is used...

Pierre

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