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Are Functions Data? with Yehonathan Sharvit

Software Unscripted

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Is There Such as a Python Dict Literal?

There is no literals for dicts in Python. There might be for dictionaries. I think it's a one great contribution of Java script to the overall programming language ecosystem. Every Python class is baked by a dict. And the dict is accessible. So you can either access the data via class A with a field B via a dot B, but you can also do a dot underscore underscore dict underscore underscore and get a. Huh. It looks like I was just looking for the wrong thing, then. All right. Today I learned.

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