On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 2:02:38 AM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > What are your favorite not-wrong-just-weird Python moments? I've seen this a number of times: dict_of_values.update({'key': some_value}) why not: dict_of_values['key'] = some_value I've considered writing a Pylint plugin to flag these... --Ned.