On 20/09/2016 13:12, 38016226...@gmail.com wrote:
d = {}
keys = range(256)
vals = map(chr, keys)
map(operator.setitem, [d]*len(keys), keys, vals)

It is from python library. What does [d]*len(keys) mean?
d is the name of dict but put d in [] really confused me.


if len(keys) is 5 then [d]*5 is:

   [d,d,d,d,d]

[d] is a list, containing one item, a dict if that is what it is.

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