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bpo-36715: Add usage note for dict.fromkeys() (GH-12974)
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Raymond Hettinger
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Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
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@ -4254,7 +4254,10 @@ pairs within braces, for example: ``{'jack': 4098, 'sjoerd': 4127}`` or ``{4098: |
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Create a new dictionary with keys from *iterable* and values set to *value*. |
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:meth:`fromkeys` is a class method that returns a new dictionary. *value* |
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defaults to ``None``. |
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defaults to ``None``. All of the values refer to just a single instance, |
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so it generally doesn't make sense for *value* to be a mutable object |
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such as an empty list. To get distinct values, use a :ref:`dict |
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comprehension <dict>` instead. |
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.. method:: get(key[, default]) |
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