On 05/27/2016 09:52 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
On 27.05.2016 18:12, Ethan Furman wrote:
On 05/27/2016 08:02 AM, Michael Selik wrote:
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:39 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:28:25PM +0100, Nathan Schneider wrote:
Instead of special syntax, what if dict.values() returned a tuple when given keys as arguments:
partner_id, product_id, ship_to, product_ids = my_dict.values( 'partner_id', 'product_id', 'ship_to', 'product_ids')
I like this idea. I think it beats the status quo:
Isn't this the status quo? a, b, c = [mapping[k] for k in ('a', 'b', 'c')]
Yes.
Uhm, what about...
from operator import itemgetter
a, b, c = itemgetter('a', 'b', 'c')(mapping)
I may have misspoken. The probably most used status quo would be: partner_id = values['partner_id'] state = values['state'] due_date = values['due_date'] ... So far, the only syntax I've seen that is both readable and has even a remote shot at acceptance would be: {partner_id, state, due_date, **rest} = values The consensus is that that is too magical (which I can't argue with ;). itemgetter, comprehensions, name changes, etc., are all (extremely) verbose. -- ~Ethan~