Syntax for extracting multiple items from a dictionary

[Bengt Richter]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:54:46 GMT, bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote:
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>If there's an overall why for doing it at all, why not just iterate through
>keys of interest? I.e., (untested)
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> dict( (key, row[key]) for key in cols )
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Sorry Anton, I didn't see your post. Newsfeed delays seem
to make this kind of duplication fairly likely ;-/

Regards,
Bengt Richter