<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Greg Ewing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz" target="_blank">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Steven D'Aprano wrote:<br>
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"getmany" doesn't tell you, many of what?<br>
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I think the idea is that it would get the same kind<br>
of things that get() gets, i.e. items by their keys.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
<br><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br>My slight hesitation about "many" is that it's a subjective quantity. (Are 2 or 3 keys enough to count as "many"?)<br><br></div><div>Another option would be 'geteach'—i.e., for each key provided, get a value. Or 'getmult' (multiple), but that could be mistaken as multiplication.<br><br></div><div>Nathan <br></div></div><br></div></div>