Dictionary limitation

[Thomas Wouters]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 02:33:25PM +0200, entropia wrote:

> > How about this:
> >
> > fruitDictionary = {
> >         'apple': [],
> >         'banana': [],
> >         'spam': [],
> >         ...
> >         }

> You can use:
> fruitDictionary={'apple':applePriceList=[], 'banana':bananaPriceList=[]....}

Nope, you can't:

>>> fruitDictionary={'apple':applePriceList=[], 'banana':bananaPriceList=[]}
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    fruitDictionary={'apple':applePriceList=[], 'banana':bananaPriceList=[]}
                                           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

You can't 'nest' assignment, in Python.

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