[Python-ideas] Enhancing dict.values

[Nathan Schneider]

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> "getmany" doesn't tell you, many of what?
>>
>
> I think the idea is that it would get the same kind
> of things that get() gets, i.e. items by their keys.
>
>
>
My slight hesitation about "many" is that it's a subjective quantity. (Are
2 or 3 keys enough to count as "many"?)

Another option would be 'geteach'—i.e., for each key provided, get a value.
Or 'getmult' (multiple), but that could be mistaken as multiplication.

Nathan
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