Python vs. Perl

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"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> > Perl: %hash = (a=>{a=>'b', b=>'c', c=>'a'}, b=>{...etc...}); This is
> pretty
>     ...
> > Python excels at dictionaries. Frankly, I find python's syntax a bit
> > burdensome and wordy.
> 
> hash = {a:{a:'b', b:'c', c:'a'}, b:{et:c}}
> 
> How is this "burdensome and wordy" compared to the Perl syntax
> you just quoted so admiringly...?!

You would actually have to write {'a':{'a': ... in Python
to have the same effect as the Perl code above.  That clearly
makes the perl key syntax more concise.

        a=>
vs      'a':

but then unfortunately Perl looses big time when you don't want
use variables as keys:

        $a=> 
vs      a:

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