Bitten by my C/Java experience
Tim Chase
python.list at tim.thechases.com
Mon May 4 17:26:30 EDT 2015
On 2015-05-04 21:57, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 04/05/2015 18:43, Ian Kelly wrote:
> >
> > Some other gotchas that aren't necessarily related to C/Java but
> > can be surprising nonetheless:
> >
> > * () is a zero-element tuple, and (a, b) is a two-element
> > tuple, but (a) is not a one-element tuple. Tuples are created by
> > commas, not parentheses, so use (a,) instead.
>
> * {} is an empty set(), not dict().
>
> Particularly subtle when combined with **kwargs
>
> $ python3
> Python 3.4.0 (default, Apr 11 2014, 13:05:11)
> [GCC 4.8.2] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> information.
> >>> def foo(**kwargs):
> ... return { (k, kwargs[k]) for k in kwargs }
> ...
> >>> foo()
> set()
> >>> foo(a=1)
> {('a', 1)}
> >>>
It's a dict:
Python 3.2.3 (default, Feb 20 2013, 14:44:27)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> type({})
<class 'dict'>
What you're seeing is that your generator creates single-element
tuples in a set constructor (note that your last item isn't
"{'a': 1}". Try instead
>>> def foo(**kwargs):
... return {k: kwargs[k] for k in kwargs}
...
>>> foo()
{}
>>> foo(a=42)
{'a': 42}
Note the colons, indicating that it's a dict. You're using the
dict() syntax:
dict((k,v) for k,v in some_iter())
-tkc
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