2009/11/12 Mathias Panzenböck <grosser.meister.morti@gmx.net>:
On 11/12/2009 05:46 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Richard Saunders <richismyname@...> writes:
Basically, the thought was there might be a place for a slightly better literal for OrderedDict in Python 3.0 od = OrderedDict([('a',1),('b':2)]) # seems clumsy
How about something like:
od = OrderedDict.from_literal(""" {'a': 1, 'b': 2} """)
Of course, you need to hook/reimplement a full-blown parser :)
this would eliminate the [ ]: def odict(*items): return OrderedDict(items)
od = odict(('a', 1), ('b', 2))
well, 2 chars isn't much. however, I don't think its worth the effort.
Or: def odict(*items): iteritems = iter(items) return OrderedDict(zip(items, items)) od = odict('a',1, 'b',2) Not worth it either :) -- Arnaud