[Python-Dev] product()

[Guido van Rossum]

> In a crazy, I-haven't-yet-had-my-coffee-yet desperate attempt at
> resurrecting PEP 274, what if we made dict (and maybe tuple)
> accumulator functions too?

There's nothing magical about accumulator functions; they're just
functions taking an iterable.  We have tons of these today, and
tuple() and dict() are among them.  Once the syntax works,

  dict((k,k) for k,k in "hello")

will with without changes to dict.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)