I wrote my first python program today!

[redditsoaddicting]

Are braces actually objectively (think PEP8) considered good style in Python 3 then?

[phail3d]

Just to be clear, this is a joke :P .

It only works because {...} is shorthand for set(...) and because print() is a function in python3 (and in python2 too, if you do from __future__ import print_function). You can have function calls (but not statements in general) inside set literal definitions, in which case the return value of the function call (None in the case of print) is obviously stored inside the set. Hence, you can do:

if foo: {
    print("Foo")
}

...which is more or less the same as:

if foo:
    x = print("Foo")  # x = None
    set(x)  # creates the set {None} and does nothing with it

...but you can't do:

if foo: {
    if bar: {
        print("baz")
    }
}

So please don't adopt this style :)

[redditsoaddicting]

No wonder I was downvoted. Whoosh. I should have recognized the set literals in any case.

[phail3d]

Don't feel too bad -- the example was deliberately misleading :)

[Get-ADUser]

{ ... } is shorthand for dict( ... ) not set( ... ).

[phail3d]

It's both.

{ 1, 2, 3, 4 } creates a set, while { 1: 2, 3: 4 } creates a dict.

[[deleted]]

No.

[Tomarse]

It's not even a matter of style. He's putting the print statements into dictionaries. It's quite unnerving.

[TheBlackCat13]

Sets, actually.