[Python-Dev] product()
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Thu Oct 23 11:05:57 EDT 2003
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 10:56, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > 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.
Cool!
-Barry
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