Python to Perl Conversions

[Florian Weimer]

wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net (William Tanksley) writes:

> 
> >                                Note that Python doesn't support hash
> >                                slices, which in Perl are simple:
> >                                    @hash{k1,k2,k3} = (v1, v2, v3)
> 
> That's a good point, although I'm not sure what Python can do about it --
> our slice semantics talk about gaps, and hashes don't have gaps.  I
> suspect we'd have to call it something other than slicing (this seems
> pretty reasonable).

You can use `hash.update({k1: v1, k2: v2, k3: v3})', which has the
additional benefit of putting keys and values closely together.