[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you think we just shouldn't use list comprehensions to build > dictinaries at all? Or is Stefan's solution acceptable (and pythonic)?
Use list comprehensions where you need the resulting list; if you want nothing but the side effects, use a for loop. [Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens] > a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] > aDict = dict([(x,x+1) for x in a if x%2==0]) Stefan's example meets the above criterion, so yes, it's acceptable. In Python 2.5 you would use a generator expression, though: aDict = dict((x, x+1) for x in a if x % 2 ==0) Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
