[Python-ideas] Bring line continuation to multi-level dictionary lookup

[Brendan Barnwell]

On 2015-09-16 21:07, John Wong wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I work with APIs which have deep nested dictionary structure response.
> Imagine a simplified case:
>
> foo = {1: {2: {3: {4: {5: 6 } } } }
>
> Now imagine I need to get to 6:
>
> foo['1']['2']['3']['4']['5']['6']

	You can just use the existing parentheses-based line continuation for this:

(foo[1]
     [2]
     [3]
     [4]
     [5]
)

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Brendan Barnwell
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