ES6-like object shorthand for Python dictionary-CodePudding

For API interaction, I need to 'summarize' some variables in a dictionary. A basic approach would be like

a = 1
b = 2
c = 3

d = {
    'a': a,
    'b': b,
    'c': c,
}

which seems to be somehow repetitive, especially for 15 variables.

To reduce optical clutter and repetition, I wondered whether Python does have something like ES6's object shorthand which allows to do:

const a = 1;
const b = 2;
const c = 3;

const obj = {
    a,
    b,
    c
}

I found an answer to a similar question, but accessing the variables via the locals() function seems to be a somehow ugly workaround.

Does Python support an ES6-comparable shorthand notation to create a dictionary from variables?

CodePudding user response：

What you're looking for doesn't exist in Python.

CodePudding user response：

This ought to lessen typing. The key is to the dict constructor rather than the literal declaration syntax {}

#can also use outside vars
d = 4

obj = dict(
a = 1,
b = 2,
c = 3,
d = d,
)