[Python-ideas] Unpacking a dict

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

On 27 May 2016 at 12:37, Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pyideas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Michael Selik <michael.selik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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?
>
> How do you mean?  Replacing `some_name =
> some_dict['some_key']['some_name']` with `from some_dict['some_key']
> import some_name`?
>
> Sure, why not? :)

That is the best idea I've seem on this thread.

And them, why having to specify the keys, just to violate DRY?

Maybe just allwoing Mappings to be usedwith  `from ...  import ...`  syntax
will work nicely, unambiguously, with no new weird syntaxes introduced  -
and the syntax even allows one to rename the dict keys to other
variables, with the
`from mymapping  import a as c,  b  as d "   variant.

That would be certainly nice.


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