why the different output in Eclipse and Python Shell?

[Dave Angel]

On 08/01/2012 11:26 AM, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
>>> my code in Eclipse:
>>>
>>> dict.fromkeys(['China','America'])
>>> print "dict is",dict
>>>
>>> output: dict is <type 'dict'>
>>>
>>> my code in Python Shell:
>>>
>>> dict.fromkeys(['China','America'])
>>>
>>> output:{'America': None, 'China': None}
>>>
>>> Output in Python Shell is what i wanna,but why not in Eclipse?
>>>
>>>
>> The Python Shell is an interactive debugger, and prints the repr() of
>> expressions that you don't assign anywhere.  I don't know Eclipse, but I
>> suspect what you want to do is something like:
>>
>> print "dict is", repr(dict)
> I think you mean
> print "dict is", repr(dict.fromkeys(['China','America']))
>
> Otherwise you are just printing the repr of the dict type
> and not the dictionary created. I would really store the output and
> then print it.
>
> d = dict.fromkeys(['China','America'])
> print "dict is", d
>
> Ramit
>
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Absolutely right.  I meant to refer to the name bound to the dict, not
the dict class itself.