[Python-ideas] Unpacking a dict

[Michael Selik]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:28 AM Zachary Ware <
zachary.ware+pyideas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's a crazy thought that might be best dismissed out of hand: what
> about extending 'from name import other_names' to accept any object
> for <name>?  First try to get values via __getitem__() (possibly only
> for dict/dict subclasses?), next try getattr(), finally try to import
> the module and pull values from it as per usual.
>
> Pros:
> - solves dict unpacking
>

Would it solve nested dict unpacking?
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