🔒 HI i was wondering what this was

[ocean scarab]

in this code:
dmap = dict(0='Mon', 1='Tue', 2='Wed', 3='Thu',
4='Fri', 5='Sat', 6='Sun'
why does one type out dict i havent seen this yet

[forest flame]

@ocean scarab

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[ocean scarab]

are they converting something to something

[autumn forge]

It's the same as {}

You can do x = {key:value}

Or

x = dict(key=value)

[ocean scarab]

sorry im new it might take me a while to aborb this @autumn forge

[warm nova]

no

[ocean scarab]

no

?

[warm nova]

he's wrong

that code seems erroneous

[autumn forge]

Is it not the same?

[ocean scarab]

Can you help me out 🙂

[warm nova]

!e when u use dict constructor the keys cannot be literals

print(dict(0='abc'))

[forest flame]

@warm nova :x: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 |   File "/home/main.py", line 1
002 |     print(dict(0='abc'))
003 |                ^^
004 | SyntaxError: expression cannot contain assignment, perhaps you meant "=="?

[autumn forge]

Ah.

[ocean scarab]

give me one sec to absorb this 😄

[warm nova]

basically this code will not work

[ocean scarab]

Is a string literal a

Is int a literal too ?

Nvm I got it

Still reading tho

[ocean scarab]

Will u still be here for another 15 mins still reading something

[warm nova]

possibly

[ocean scarab]

Ty for all your help buddy 🥹

[ocean scarab]

So what does that have to do my question sorry I’m kinda lost

[warm nova]

i was just showing that the code you gave would give an error

[unique jasper]

But you can do this. dict([(0, "red"), (1, "blue)])

dict is the class form of the {} literal.

The literal form can be used when all items are known at dev time (or in a generator). dict() can be used to convert other objects to a dict.

it also accepts kwargs

[ocean scarab]

Even tho the code is wrong can you tell me why they put Dict first

[unique jasper]

stylistic choice probably

when you have string keys, you don't need to wrap the keys in quotes when using dict(x=y)

vs {"x": y}

[ocean scarab]

Is a string key a data type

[unique jasper]

if you have more than 3 or 4 keys, you're saving space.

it's a str

!d str

[forest flame]

str

class str(object='')``````py

class str(object=b'', encoding='utf-8', errors='strict')```
Return a [string](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#textseq) version of *object*. If *object* is not provided, returns the empty string. Otherwise, the behavior of `str()` depends on whether *encoding* or *errors* is given, as follows.

If neither *encoding* nor *errors* is given, `str(object)` returns [`type(object).__str__(object)`](https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__str__), which is the “informal” or nicely printable string representation of *object*. For string objects, this is the string itself. If *object* does not have a [`__str__()`](https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__str__) method, then [`str()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str) falls back to returning [`repr(object)`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#repr).

[unique jasper]

or ""

[forest flame]

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