[Python-ideas] change list() - branch from "More useful slices"

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/2/2015 2:24 PM, Alexander Heger wrote:

> Well, if something useful comes out of this discussion, maybe it would
> be an idea to extend list to allow the former syntax naively assumed,
>
> list('foo', 'bar', 'baz')

I see no point to this versus ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']

> similar to what exists for dict():
>
> dict(a=1, b=2, c=3)

The point to this is that the alternative {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3) is a 
bit more awkward to write due to the quoting.


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Terry Jan Reedy