[Python-ideas] Unpacking a dict

[Ethan Furman]

On 05/25/2016 11:42 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 01:11:35PM +0000, Michael Selik wrote:

>>      py> mapping = {"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3}
>>      py> {"a": x, "b": y, "c": z} = mapping
>>      py> x, y, z
>>      (1, 2, 3)
>
> I think that is too verbose and visually baffling. I'd rather see
> something less general and (in my opinion) more useful:
>
> a, b, c = **mapping
>
> being equivalent to:
>
> a = mapping['a']
> b = mapping['b']
> c = mapping['c']

+1

Simplest, easiest to grok, probably solves 95+% of the use-cases.

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~Ethan~