[issue16385] evaluating literal dict with repeated keys gives no warnings/errors

[Jonathan Fine]

Jonathan Fine <jfine2358 at gmail.com> added the comment:

This is was closed and tagged as resolved in 2012. The status has not been changed since then.

Using dict(a=1, ...) provides a workaround, but only when the keys are valid as variable names. The general workaround is something like
    helper([
        (1, 'a'),
        (2, 'b'),
        #etc
    ])

The helper is necessary:
>>> [(1, 2)] * 5
[(1, 2), (1, 2), (1, 2), (1, 2), (1, 2)]
>>> dict([(1, 2)] * 5)
{1: 2}

----------

_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue16385>
_______________________________________