On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A colleague pointed me at Doug's excellent article here:
> ...which made me a little sad, I suspect I'm not the only one who finds:
>
> a_dict = dict(
> x = 1,
> y = 2,
> z = 3,
> ...
> )
>
> ...easier to read than:
>
> a_dict = {
> 'x':1,
> 'y':2,
> 'z':3,
> ...
> }
Hey, it makes me a little sad that dict breaks convention by allowing
the use of unquoted characters (which everywhere else looks like
variable names) just for a silly typing optimization.
mark
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