Greg Ewing, 15.11.2012 11:48:
> [email protected] wrote:
>> It's faster than calling dict() because the dict code will
>> create a second dictionary, and discard the keywords dictionary.
> 
> Perhaps in the case where dict() is called with keyword
> args only, it could just return the passed-in keyword
> dictionary instead of creating another one?

This should work as long as this still creates a copy of d at some point:

    d = {...}
    dict(**d)

Stefan


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