I'd be in favor of a nice syntax for named mapping unpacking.

But while we are at discussion - I'd point out it is "possible" (not easy) with 
current day syntax, by abusing the command "import" - 
One can set appropriate import hooks that would enable
either for the current module, or maybe, in a context ("with") block
the use of import targeting a variable - so, the syntax

from mymap import key1, key2 

can work. 
Downside: it will be much slower than an assignment.

I have something similar working, but it is currently based
on monkey patching builtins.__import__ - upgrading it to properly
using the import machinery is on the roadmap. 


On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 8:25 AM Matsuoka Takuo <motogeomtop@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 04:02, Christopher Barker <pythonchb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just one note:
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 6:56 AM Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > (2) For the form of the assignment target, I think an analogy with the
>> > reception of function arguments could also be considered.
>
>
> I think so -- maybe only because it's new, but folks are certainly far more familiar with **kwargs than pattern matching.

Structural pattern matching does a more general assignment than
happens at passing of function arguments.  So the latter is simpler,
but is sufficient (at least conceptually) for the form of assignment
considered here.  However, both of them may lead to distinct pieces of
syntax, both of which might possibly be useful.

Best regards,
Takuo Matsuoka
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