[Python-ideas] Adding list.pluck()

[Westley Martínez]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 09:01:53PM +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> On 02.06.12 19:06, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Mathias Panzenböck
> ><grosser.meister.morti at gmx.net>  wrote:
> >>>>>from operator import itemgetter
> >>>>>map(itemgetter('name'),stooges)
> >>['moe', 'larry', 'curly']
> >
> >If I saw this I would have to think a lot harder before I figured what
> >it meant. (Especially without the output example.)
> 
> And this is not true in Python 3.
> 
> <map object at 0xb747970c>

map returns a generator in Python 3.