Canonical conversion of dict of dicts to list of dicts

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2021-03-30, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?).

Python 3 point, er, 8, yeah, that's the only other version people might
be using...

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