Dictionary from list?

Rainer Deyke root at rainerdeyke.com
Tue Oct 23 16:12:51 EDT 2001


"Huaiyu Zhu" <huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:slrn9tbier.135.huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com...
> There have been several good arguments about why [(k,v), (k,v) ...] is
> better than [k, v, k, v, ...].  Here are some more observations:

<snip arguments>

Add to that:

- When dealing with '[k, v, k, v, ...]' sequences, it is easy to
accidentally mess up the alignment and create a '[k, k, v, k, v, ...]'
sequence instead (with disasterous results).


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