[Python-Dev] Currently baking idea for dict.sequpdate(iterable, value=True) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:41:06 -0500

And maybe the method should be named fromkeyseq, because there is another constructor that creates the dict from a sequence of items.

+1

(Maybe this constructor should be made into a class method fromitemseq?)

Too late -- it's already dict() in Python 2.2.

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