On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Chris Angelico writes:
>
> > >>> {"a":1}+{"b":2}
>
> > It would make sense for this to result in {"a":1,"b":2}.
>
> The test is not "does this sometimes make sense?" It's "does this
> ever result in nonsense, and if so, do we care?"
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On 15/11/12 05:54, Mark Adam wrote:
>> Notice that I'm not merging one dict into another, but merging two dicts
>> into a third.
>
> Side p
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Xavier Morel wrote:
> On 2012-11-14, at 19:54 , Mark Adam wrote:
>>
>> Merging of two dicts is done with dict.update.
>
> No, dict.update merges one dict (or two) into a third one.
No. I think you need to read the docs.
>> How do you
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Xavier Morel wrote:
> On 2012-11-14, at 18:10 , Mark Adam wrote:
>>
>> Try the canonical {'x':1}. Only dict allows the special
>> initialization above. Other collections require an iterable.
>
> Other collections don'
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:27 AM, R. David Murray wrote:
> Maybe it's not good design, but I'll bet you that if it didn't do that,
> there would be lots of instances of this scattered around various
> codebases:
>
> def makedict(**kw):
> return kw
Now that's a good solution and probab
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Brian Curtin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Mark Adam wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Chris Withers
>> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> A colleague pointed me at Doug's excellent article here:
&
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Xavier Morel wrote:
>
> On 2012-11-14, at 17:42 , Richard Oudkerk wrote:
>
>> On 14/11/2012 4:23pm, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
>>> PEP 8 recommends:
>>>
>>> a_dict = dict(
>>> x=1,
>>> y=2,
>>> z=3,
>>> ...
>>> )
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> a_dict = {
>>>
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A colleague pointed me at Doug's excellent article here:
> ...which made me a little sad, I suspect I'm not the only one who finds:
>
> a_dict = dict(
> x = 1,
> y = 2,
> z = 3,
> ...
> )
>
> ...easier to read
