7 Oct
2019
7 Oct
'19
3:56 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, at 09:22, Rhodri James wrote:
Allowing key value pairs in geitem need not change the interface of getitem. All the key value pairs could be collected as a dict and passed to getitem as the index.
Um. Stop me if I'm wrong, but isn't that exactly a change to the interface of getitem?
Missed this on my previous reply - I think his point is that that the __getitem__ function *itself* would continue to take a singular positional argument (and so the C API for tp_getitem etc wouldn't have to change), it would merely be an additional way to construct that argument, just as x[a, b] passes a tuple (a, b) rather than two positional arguments. Presumably, x[a, b, c=d, e=f] would pass a tuple (a, b, {c: d, e: f}).