Cannot initialize a dict from other unpacked dicts

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Bug
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python
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compilers

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Start by reproducing the reported compilation failure with print({**{1:2}}) and inspect the compiler path handling unpacked dictionary literals. Done means this valid Python syntax compiles successfully to JavaScript and preserves the expected dictionary contents.

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IS: limitation STATE: under consideration

This code fails to compile:

print({**{1:2}})

Perhaps this is recent Python syntax?

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