Le Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:00:37 +1000,
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> a écrit :
> Is this just syntactic sugar for recursive lookup of a transformedNope. For one, it doesn't use __missing__ at all. I think
> version in __missing__?
using __missing__ would be... missing the point, because it wouldn't
working properly if you have e.g. X != Y such that transform(X) == Y
and transform(Y) == X.
(a simple example being transform = str.swapcase :-))
Probably, although I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that :-)
> Or a way of supplying a custom "key" function
> to a dictionary?
Well, one sticking point here is that those variants don't compose with
> Any such proposal should consider how it composes with other dict
> variants like defaultdict, OrderedDict and counter.
each other already :-)
But, yes, I may make another proposal with composition in mind.