Válas Péter wrote: > I think I am new to here, as far as I remember. :-) > > http://docs.python.org/dev/library/stdtypes.html#dict says: > we can create a dictionary with > > - dict({'one': 1, 'two': 2}) > > What is the adventage of this form to simply writing d = {'one': 1, 'two': > 2}? Is there any difference?
That is meant to illustrate that you can create a dictionary from another one by passing the existing dictionary to dict(). A more realistic example is >>> friends = {"Jim": 42, "Jack": 18} >>> family = {"Sue": 7, "Eli": 30} >>> friends_and_family = dict(friends) >>> friends_and_family.update(family) >>> friends_and_family {'Eli': 30, 'Sue': 7, 'Jim': 42, 'Jack': 18} _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor