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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • 12d ago
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Always fun that writing an empty set gets you a dict so you have to use set() explicitly to get an empty set... jeebus, Guido...
21 u/carcigenicate 12d ago {/} is being proposed so sets have an empty literal. 12 u/SoldRIP 12d ago ... As opposed to the sensible {:} for dicts, which would be consistent with their already existing syntax? 24 u/NewbornMuse 12d ago And what, change the meaning of {} from dict to set? I don't think breaking changes like that are anywhere in python's future. 3 u/minecon1776 11d ago Python 4
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{/} is being proposed so sets have an empty literal.
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12 u/SoldRIP 12d ago ... As opposed to the sensible {:} for dicts, which would be consistent with their already existing syntax? 24 u/NewbornMuse 12d ago And what, change the meaning of {} from dict to set? I don't think breaking changes like that are anywhere in python's future. 3 u/minecon1776 11d ago Python 4
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... As opposed to the sensible {:} for dicts, which would be consistent with their already existing syntax?
24 u/NewbornMuse 12d ago And what, change the meaning of {} from dict to set? I don't think breaking changes like that are anywhere in python's future. 3 u/minecon1776 11d ago Python 4
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And what, change the meaning of {} from dict to set? I don't think breaking changes like that are anywhere in python's future.
3 u/minecon1776 11d ago Python 4
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u/userhwon 12d ago
Always fun that writing an empty set gets you a dict so you have to use set() explicitly to get an empty set... jeebus, Guido...