Dictionary to tuple

[Robert Kern]

Erik Max Francis wrote:
> bruno modulix wrote:
> 
>>Err... don't you spot any useless code here ?-)
>>
>>(tip: dict.items() already returns a list of (k,v) tuples...)
> 
> But it doesn't return a tuple of them.  Which is what the tuple call 
> there does.

The useless code referred to was the list comprehension.

 >>> t = tuple([(k,v) for k,v in d.iteritems()])

versus

 >>> t = tuple(d.items())

or even

 >>> t = tuple(d.iteritems())

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