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_wiv7 on April 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unpythonic Python

Doesn't even touch on my personal pet peeve, people who don't use list and dict literals. I assume they're former Java programmers who got ahold of enough python knowledge to be dangerous. e.g:

  x = dict()
  x['a'] = 'string'
  x['b'] = list()
  x['b'].append('foo')
  x['b'].append('bar')

prescindor on April 10, 2014 | [–]

You can say

    x = dict(a = 'string', b = list(('foo', 'bar')))

codygman on April 10, 2014 | [–]

Literals are much more readable in any language I've used (or at least can think of right now).

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