How do I initialize a dictionary of empty lists in Python?

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Passing [] as second argument to dict.fromkeys() gives a rather useless result – all values in the dictionary will be the same list object.

In Python 2.7 or above, you can use a dicitonary comprehension instead:

data = {k: [] for k in range(2)}

In earlier versions of Python, you can use

data = dict((k, []) for k in range(2))

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