[Python-ideas] Unpacking a dict

[Michael Selik]

On Thu, May 26, 2016, 10:46 PM Rob Cliffe <rob.cliffe at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 26/05/2016 18:51, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 04:10:10PM +0200, Michel Desmoulin wrote:
> With tuple and list unpacking
>      (a,b) = (1,2)
> the structure of the LHS and RHS mirror each other, making the meaning
> intuitive/obvious.
> Doing the same thing for dicts:
>      { 'a' : a, 'b' : b } = { 'a' : 1, 'b' : 2 }
> makes the LHS too verbose to be very useful IMO.


But is it intuitive/obvious? Sounds like you think so.


> All the examples so
> far can be done in other, arguably better, ways.
>

Not for nested destructuring. Maybe my example got lost in the shuffle. No
one replied to it.
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