Life's better without braces

[Moshe Zadka]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Gerrit Holl wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have a problem. In my Python enthuishasm, I ripped off the braces
> from my keyboard because I thought I didn't need them.
> Unfortunately, I have a problem now. I can't create dictionairies any
> more! And because braces aren't the only keys on the brace key,
> I can't create lists either. The solution for the latter is list(()),
> but how do I create an empty dictionairy without braces?

>>> import UserDict
>>> a=UserDict.UserDict().data
>>> a
{}