On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:26 PM Ricky Teachey <ricky@teachey.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 8:17 AM Ricky Teachey <ricky@teachey.org> wrote:
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>> Why not just grow a parse method on str that returns a dict and do it this way?
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>> q = "{a} {b}"
>> p = "1 2"
>> (a, b) = q.parse(p)
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> Sorry that should have been:
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> (a, b) = q.parse(p).values()
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You're using a dictionary as if it were a tuple. That's going to cause
a LOT of pain when someone does something like:

a, b = "{b} {a}".parse(p).values()

and they come out in the wrong order. Bad bad bad idea. Don't have
names if they're going to be pure lies.

ChrisA