Can I build a dictonary with a list-comprehension?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

"Hans Nowak" <hnowak at cuci.nl> wrote in message
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> Un an entirely unrelated note, maybe there should be dictionary
> comprehensions, too... :)
>
> { k,v for k,v in dict if type(v) == type("") }
>
> <ducking for cover>

I suggested this quite a while ago, but it didn't catch on.

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