George Sakkis a écrit : > Although I consider dict(**kwds) as one of the few unfortunate design > choices in python since it prevents the future addition of useful > keyword arguments (e.g a default value or an orderby function), I've > been finding myself lately using it sometimes instead of dict literals, > for no particular reason. Is there any coding style consensus on when > should dict literals be preferred over dict(**kwds) and vice versa ?
using dict literals means that you'll always have a builtin dict - you cannot dynamically select another dict-like class. OTHO, you can only use valid python identifiers as keys with dict(**kw). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
