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bar, spam = d.multiple("foo", "egg")
Terry Reed: ->1 because the need is way to rare for new syntax support and because | bar, spam = [d[k] for k in ("foo", "egg")]
already does what is wanted in easily understood code.
This is true, but with a fast implementation this operation is incredibly useful. If we go waaay back to kjbuckets (the original "set" module circa 1993 or so) there was (v1,v2,v3) = D.dump( (k1,k2,k3)) and also the inverse operation kjDict.undump( (k1,k2,k3), (v1, v2, v3) ) which are extremely useful for packing/unpacking large data structures. Please see http://gadfly.sourceforge.net/kjbuckets.html There are lots of other cool operations which can be very handy -- transpose, difference, closure... By the way, I've been delighted to see Python gradually growing features that kjbuckets provided more than a decade ago. It's just too bad you guys can't figure out how to get them all at once somehow.... -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=buckets