Yeah ... In that case I would write a function to return this result dict in a more imperative way in python -- but perhaps that's cuz i am not that great of an

Yeah ... In that case I would write a function to return this result dict in a more imperative way in python -- but perhaps that's cuz i am not that great of an engineer/python dev. But what I can see is that the syntax of Kotlin (which I've never written) you've provided is a lot cleaner.