[Python-ideas] Dict(x, y) -> Dict(zip(x, y))

[Rob Cliffe]

I think the zip is meaningful enough that it should not be omitted.
Someone seeing
     dict(x, y)
for the first time might think it meant
     { x : y }
or
     the combination of 2 dictionaries, x and y.
Rob Cliffe

On 15/02/2016 00:30, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> I often find myself writing dict(zip(x, y)). Maybe that's just me or
> maybe not but I would like it if it were possible to spell that simply
> as dict(x, y).
>
> Currently dict() with two arguments is an error:
>
> $ python3
> Python 3.4.3 (default, Mar 26 2015, 22:03:40)
> [GCC 4.9.2] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> dict(['foo', 'bar'], [1, 2])
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: dict expected at most 1 arguments, got 2
>
> I would prefer it if dict(x, y) would treat x as an iterable of keys
> and y as an iterable of corresponding values. This would be
> semantically equivalent to dict(zip(x, y)) except that it would raise
> an error if x and y don't yield the same number of items (zip
> truncates the longer argument).
>
> Although mostly equivalent the new construction might be more
> efficient, would reduce the visual noise of the redundant call to zip,
> and would be slightly more robust to errors.
>
> --
> Oscar
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