Idiosyncratic python
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Thu Sep 24 20:55:09 EDT 2015
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 06:46 am, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> 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...
Awesome!
I haven't seen it in the wild, but there's this too:
dict_of_values.update(key=some_value)
--
Steven
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