Steve Howell wrote:
Let the Python interpreter build expression objects for you. You write: rowexpr: convert_to_euros(salary) > 50000 and deptno = 10 Python translates that into the same bytecode as: lambda row: convert_to_euros(row['salary'] > 50000 and row['deptno'] == 10
I'm sorry, why would that not be translated into: lambda row: row['convert_to_euros'](row['salary'] > row['50000'] row['and'] row['deptno'] == row['10'] ? Specifically, how would python know what to dereference and what not to? What if there were two things, named the same, one in the row and one in the namespace? (i.e. a variable named 'salary') How would you escape things which would have been dereferenced but you didn't want to be? (i.e. "rowexpr: convert_to_euros(salary) > salary") I guess I'm kind of wasting my time here, since the introduction of a new keyword for this application really isn't going to happen, based on other decisions I've seen Guido make, but I do think that you need to think a little more about how the implementation of this feature would work. (Or perhaps you've done that thinking, and you just need to fill in the proposal with that information.) Thanks, Blake.