In article <mailman.247.1242441988.8015.python-l...@python.org>,
Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote:
>In article
><fe3354e50905151817ie4df792hebec03ae42eca...@mail.gmail.com>,
> Sam Tregar <s...@tregar.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone explain why this creates a list containing a
>> dictionary:
>> [{'a': 'b', 'foo': 'bar'}]
>> But this creates a list of keys of the dictionary:
>> list({ "a": "b", "foo": "bar" })
>
>The first example is a list, expressed as a list display literal,
>containing one object: a dictionary, expressed as a dictionary display
>literal.
>
>The second example is a call to the built-in function "list", [...]
Actually, list() is not a function:
>>> list
<type 'list'>
Rather, ``list`` is an object (specifically a ``type`` object) with a
__call__() method.
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