[Python-Dev] dict comps

[Paul Svensson]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

>We agreed yesterday that the dictionary() constructor would accept a
>a list of two-tuples (strictly speaking an iterable object of iterable
>objects of length 2).  That plus list comprehensions pretty much
>covers the territory of dict comprehensions:
>
>>>> print dictionary([(i, chr(65 + i)) for i in range(4)])
>{0: 'A', 1: 'B', 2: 'C', 3: 'D'}
>

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to spell that

	{ i: chr(65 + i) for i in range(4) }

		/Paul