Canonical conversion of dict of dicts to list of dicts

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:01 PM Jon Ribbens via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> On 2021-03-30, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I dunno about "canonical", but here's how I'd do it:
> >
> > lod = [info | {"name": name} for name, info in dod.items()]
> >
> > You could use {"name":name}|info instead if you prefer to have the
> > name show up first in the dictionary.
>
> It's probably worth noting this method requires Python 3.9.

True, and if you need 3.8 support, then the dict constructor with one
kwarg is the way to do it. But this way has the flexibility that you
can choose which way to resolve conflicts (if there's a name inside
the info dict, should it override the key, or not?).

ChrisA