[Python-Dev] dict() enhancement idea? (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon bac@OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:00:51 -0800 (PST)

[Just van Rossum]

I sometimes use an idiom like

def dictfromkeywords(**kwargs): return kwargs d = dictfromkeywords( akey = 12, anotherkey = "foo", ...etc. )

+1

So far everyone who has responded to this idea has admitted they have code somewhere the operates like this.

to conveniently build dicts with literal keys. I think I've seen Alex Martelli advertise it, too. Don't know how well known it is otherwise, but it is extremly handy.

I think Alex has it in the Cookbook.

-Brett