SUMMARY: Off-thread-topic comment on examples and words in documentation. Inada Naoki quoted (from doc.python ref [6] in my original post):
If a comma-separated sequence of key/datum pairs is given, they are evaluated from left to right to define the entries of the dictionary: each key object is used as a key into the dictionary to store the corresponding datum. This means that you can specify the same key multiple times in the key/datum list, and the final dictionary’s value for that key will be the last one given.
Indeed. Although off-topic, I think
{'a': 0, 'a': 1} == {'a': 1} True
is much better than "This means that you can specify the same key multiple times in the key/datum list, and the final dictionary’s value for that key will be the last one given." By the way, today I think we'd say key/value pairs. And I've read https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-d data takes a singular verb (like agenda), though strictly a plural; you come across datum, the singular of data, about as often as you hear about an agendum Oh, and "the final dictionary's value" should I think be "the dictionary's final value" or perhaps just "the dictionary's value" But now we're far from the thread topic. I'm happy to join in on a thread on improving documentation (by using simpler language and good examples). -- Jonathan