David Isaac wrote: > Does George's example raise the question: > why do dictionaries not implement efficient creation > for two common cases? > > - Making a dict from two sequences of the same length. > - Making a dict from a sequence and a function > (as in George's example in this thread).
Maybe you should lobby for dict comprehensions in Python 3000. It already has set comprehensions: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3100/ STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list