Process tuple contents on the fly

[MRAB]

On 15/04/2013 20:05, Barrett Lewis wrote:
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>        d = {}
>        for key, d[key] in (("this",18), ("that",17), ("other",38)):
>          print key
>          do_something(d)
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> Why not use a dict comprehension?
> d = {k:v for k,v in  (("this",18), ("that",17), ("other",38))}
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> I feel this is more straightforward and easier to read. the results are
> the same however.
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Why use a dict comprehension? :-)

d = dict((("this",18), ("that",17), ("other",38))}