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When initializing a dictionary with d = {} Pycharm's code inspector generates a warning, saying This dictionary creation could be rewritten as a dictionary literal. If I rewrite it d = dict() the warning goes away. Since {} already is a dictionary literal, I'm pretty sure the message is erroneous. Furthermore, it seems like both d = {} and d = dict() are valid and Pythonic. This related question seems to conclude that the choice is just a matter of style/preference: differences between "d = dict()" and "d = {}" Why would Pycharm complain about d = {} ? UPDATE: Mac nailed it. The warning actually applied to multiple lines, not just the one that was flagged. Pycharm seems to look for a sequence of consecutive statements where you initialize a dictionary and then set values in the dictionary. For example, this will trigger the warning: d = {} d['a'] = 1 But this code will not: d = {} pass d['a'] = 1
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