a dictionary from a list

[Michael Hoffman]

Roy Smith wrote:

> I just re-read the documentation on the dict() constructor.  Why does it 
> support keyword arguments?
> 
>    dict(foo="bar", baz="blah") ==> {"foo":"bar", "baz"="blah"}
> 
> This smacks of creeping featurism.  Is this actually useful in real code?  

Personally, I use it all the time. It's a much more convenient literal 
for a dictionary. And before it was introduced I used this utility function:

def mkdict(**kwargs):
     return kwargs
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Michael Hoffman