On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 8:33 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
> Possible solution:
> s = {} # new empty set
> d = {:} # new empty dictionary (the ":" is a reference to key-value pairs)
>
I have suggested over the years—as have probably dozens of other people
(maybe thousands)—that that would be a great spelling if Python were a
brand new language. But in reality, Python is 30+ years old, and billions
of lines of code use `{}` as an empty dict.
Historically, Python had dictionaries before it had sets, so there was more
than a decade in there where sets were not a thing you could spell at all.
A breaking change isn't something that's going to happen here.
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