Resurrecting PEP-472
Hi all, On the Python-Ideas mailing list, there has been a long debate about resurrecting PEP 472, "Support for indexing with keyword arguments". https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0472/ One of the existing authors, Stefano Borini, is interested in updating the PEP with a new strategy that has some support (but not a consensus) on Python-Ideas, and removing from contention the previous strategies. The new strategy is to pass keyword arguments directly to keyword parameters in the `__getitem__` etc methods, as other functions and methods do. The previous, rejected, strategies involved various hacks such as overloading the single index parameter with a dict or a namedtuple, etc. Two complications: - the PEP is rejected, not deferred. - one of the previous co-authors, Joseph Martinot-Lagarde, seems to have dropped out of contact. Does Stefano need to get a sponsor and create a new PEP, or can he prepare a PR and ask for it to be re-opened? -- Steve
participants (8)
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Antoine Pitrou -
Brett Cannon -
Eric V. Smith -
Guido van Rossum -
Joseph Martinot-Lagarde -
Stefano Borini -
Steven D'Aprano -
Victor Stinner