[Python-ideas] Ordered Dictionary Literals

[Antoine Pitrou]

Richard Saunders <richismyname at ...> writes:
> 
> Basically, the thought was there might be a place for a slightly better
> literal for OrderedDict
> in Python 3.0
>  od = OrderedDict([('a',1),('b':2)])  # seems clumsy

How about something like:

od = OrderedDict.from_literal("""
  {'a': 1, 'b': 2} """)

Of course, you need to hook/reimplement a full-blown parser :)