[Python-Dev] Sets, Dictionaries (original) (raw)

Eric Fahlgren ericfahlgren at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 14:15:01 EDT 2018

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:11 AM, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:

I agree with everything Steven says. But it's true that even as a 20-year Python user, this is an error I make moderately often when I want an empty set... Notwithstanding that I typed it thousands of times before sets even existed (and still type it when I want an empty dictionary).

That said, I've sort of got in the habit of using the type initializers: x = set() y = dict() z = list() I feel like those jump out a little better visually. But I'm inconsistent in my code.

​ Yeah, we've been doing that for several years, too. A hair slower in some cases, but much more greppable...

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