list_to_dict()

[Michael Hudson]

maney at pobox.com writes:

> > and the list comprehension a the same time (OTOH, it relies on lists
> > having a __getitem__):
> 
> But I *like* list comprehensions!  <wink>
> 
> Okay, to work with older versions.  Is __getitem__ itself relatively
> recent?

[].__getitem__ is only there in 2.2 and later.

Cheers,
M.


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