[Python-3000] No Container Literals

[Georg Brandl]

Calvin Spealman wrote:
> Just throwing this out there, but I would love to see a complete
> dropping of container literals from Python. That is why I proposed the
> coercion syntax (ex: list from something) because it would allow
> things like list(1, 2, 3) and we can already do dict(ten=10,
> eleven=11), so what is the real need for literals as they are? With
> some proper compiler optimization we can deduce if list, dict, and
> such are in fact bound to the builtins we know, and build literals
> from these expressions just the same, but I feel they seem much more
> readable, and allow better addition of more literal compilations (set
> literals are fixed then, for example). I know no one will like this,
> but I have to make the idea known anyway.

-1. List and dict displays are a great feature of the language. Why throw
them out just because of purism?

How would you spell {1: 2} with your syntax?

Georg