[Python-Dev] product()

[Barry Warsaw]

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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