Python supports dict comprehensions, which allow you to express the creation of dictionaries at runtime using a similarly concise syntax. A dictionary comprehension takes the form {key: …

May 18, 2010 · I could see the benefit of an explicit syntax, but the absence of the approach in the official docs made me suspicious. After posting this I looked at the library docs for dict and …

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Mar 1, 2010 · How do I make Python dictionary members accessible via a dot "."? For example, instead of writing mydict['val'], I'd like to write mydict.val. Also I'd like to access nested dicts …

Aug 31, 2008 · In Python 3.5, you can also use this syntax in list, dict, tuple, and set displays (also sometimes called literals). See PEP 488: Additional Unpacking Generalizations.

Apr 29, 2013 · Example of a bad surprise: if you have a key in the dict which happens to be a python keyword, e.g. the string 'for', then attribute access fails and there's no elegant way to …

How can I merge two Python dictionaries in a single expression? For dictionaries x and y, their shallowly-merged dictionary z takes values from y, replacing those from x. In Python 3.9.0 or …

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d = dict([['hash', 'bang'], ['slash', 'dot']]) And a whole other multitude of ways with the dict() function. So obviously one of the things dict() provides is flexibility in syntax and initialization. …