On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 07:10:15PM +0100, Sven R. Kunze wrote: > 1. advantage: it looks like dict access -> allows duck typing (oh how > often I'd missed that)
Dicts and lists don't duck-type because they are very different things. We know what ["item"]*10 does. What would {"key": "value"}*10 do? What would list.values() iterate over? -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/