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12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions 12 Doc/glossary.rst
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keys can be any object with :meth:`__hash__` and :meth:`__eq__` methods.
Called a hash in Perl.

dictionary comprehension
A compact way to process all or part of the elements in an iterable and
return a dictionary with the results. ``results = {n: n ** 2 for n in
range(10)}`` generates a dictionary containing key ``n`` mapped to
value ``n ** 2``. See :ref:`comprehensions`.

dictionary view
The objects returned from :meth:`dict.keys`, :meth:`dict.values`, and
:meth:`dict.items` are called dictionary views. They provide a dynamic
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interface can be registered explicitly using
:func:`~abc.register`.

set comprehension
A compact way to process all or part of the elements in an iterable and
return a set with the results. ``results = {c for c in 'abracadabra' if
c not in 'abc'}`` generates the set of strings ``{'r', 'd'}``. See
:ref:`comprehensions`.

single dispatch
A form of :term:`generic function` dispatch where the implementation is
chosen based on the type of a single argument.
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objects. If *iterable* is not specified, a new empty set is
returned.

Sets can be created by several means:

* Use a comma-separated list of elements within braces: ``{'jack', 'sjoerd'}``
* Use a set comprehension: ``{c for c in 'abracadabra' if c not in 'abc'}``
* Use the type constructor: ``set()``, ``set('foobar')``, ``set(['a', 'b', 'foo'])``

Instances of :class:`set` and :class:`frozenset` provide the following
operations:

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Return a new dictionary initialized from an optional positional argument
and a possibly empty set of keyword arguments.

Dictionaries can be created by several means:

* Use a comma-separated list of ``key: value`` pairs within braces:
``{'jack': 4098, 'sjoerd': 4127}`` or ``{4098: 'jack', 4127: 'sjoerd'}``
* Use a dict comprehension: ``{}``, ``{x: x ** 2 for x in range(10)}``
* Use the type constructor: ``dict()``,
``dict([('foo', 100), ('bar', 200)])``, ``dict(foo=100, bar=200)``

If no positional argument is given, an empty dictionary is created.
If a positional argument is given and it is a mapping object, a dictionary
is created with the same key-value pairs as the mapping object. Otherwise,
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Displays for lists, sets and dictionaries
-----------------------------------------

.. index:: single: comprehensions

For constructing a list, a set or a dictionary Python provides special syntax
called "displays", each of them in two flavors:

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.. index::
pair: set; display
pair: set; comprehensions
object: set
single: {} (curly brackets); set expression
single: , (comma); expression list
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.. index::
pair: dictionary; display
pair: dictionary; comprehensions
key, datum, key/datum pair
object: dictionary
single: {} (curly brackets); dictionary expression
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