[Python-ideas] Unpacking a dict

[Nikolaus Rath]

On May 29 2016, Guido van Rossum <guido-+ZN9ApsXKcEdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> using other words still on the table?
>>
>>  d = {"foo": 42}
>>  <something> d <something> 42 # or the other way around
>>  assert foo == 42
>
> This I don't understand -- why would the '42' appear in the extraction
> syntax? I guess you meant "foo"?

Yes, sorry.

> Maybe we can riff on
>
>   extract foo from d
>
> ? Though honestly that looks like it would be extracting d.foo, no
> d['foo'].

Yeah, but that might be useful too :-). How about:

extract key foo from d
extract attribute foo import d

or

export key foo from d
export attribute foo import d

As for "import", with both foo and d required to be identifiers.

Best,
Nikolaus


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