Populating a dictionary, fast

[Ben Finney]

DouhetSukd <DouhetSukd at gmail.com> writes:

> Ah, well, just noticed Ben's suggested this already.  Mind you, his
> code, while correct in intent, does look a bit fishy (missing those
> square brackets)

By "missing those square brackets", what would be a list comprehension
(allocating an entire list in memory at once before proceeding)
becomes a generator expression (generating results from the sequence
only as needed).

Enter 'python "generator expression"' into your favourite search
engine to find out more.

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Ben Finney