[Python-Dev] Re: accumulator display syntax

[Greg Ewing]

David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu>:

> Who cares about tuple comprehensions, but I would like similar syntactic 
> sugar for dict comprehensions as for lists:
>     {k:v for k,v in S}

If you have *that*, as well as generator expressions,
someone is going to want

  k:v for k,v in S

as a bare expression to be some sort of generator.
What exactly it would generate isn't clear...

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