Raymond Hettinger added the comment: -0 I could see some use cases for this, dict.fromkeys(contestants, factory=list), but it adds complexity to a core container API and it starts to overlap the use cases for collections.defaultdict().
Perhaps set comprehensions should remain the one-obvious-way-to-do-it: {k : [] for k in contestants} ---------- assignee: -> rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23372> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com