On 2016-05-27 11:29, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
On May 27 2016, Brendan Barnwell <brenbarn-OJtuk2o/0Ank1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
On 2016-05-27 08:09, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
Very true. But as someone else already said (I can't find the email right now), we have a different construct that everyone is familiar with and that's easily adapted for this situation:
from dict context import active_id, active_ids, active_model
or more general:
"from dict" <expr> "import" <identifier list>
Everyone knows that "from .. import .." modifies the local namespace. We just have to extend it to work not just on modules, but also on dictionaries.
One problem with this is that currently "from" doesn't operate on names or objects. It operates on module paths. You can't do this:
import somepackage as othername from othername import something
(You'll get "No module named othername".)
If we change this
I'm not proposing to change this. I'm proposing to add a new "from dict <foo> import <bar>" statement that provides the new functionality.
Ah, I had missed that. I agree that resolves the ambiguity, but I don't care much for that way of doing it. Does the object have to be a dict? What about some other mapping type? If new syntax were to be added, it makes more sense to me to change the "verb", a la "from someobject get somename". -- Brendan Barnwell "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail." --author unknown