Syntax for extracting multiple items from a dictionary

[Simon Brunning]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:23:28 -0500, Dave Merrill <dmerrillq at usaq.netq> wrote:
> "anton muhin" wrote:
> > Or dict((key, row[key]) for key in cols).
> 
> I'm on Py 2.3.3, and neither of these appear to work. Can someone confirm? I
> can't see anything in the 2.4 release notes that point to where this would
> have changed.

They use generator expressions, which were introduced by Python 2.4.
See <http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/whatsnew/node4.html>.

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