[Python-ideas] get() method for list and tuples

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Feb 28 19:02:54 EST 2017


On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 07:10:15PM +0100, Sven R. Kunze wrote:

> 1. advantage: it looks like dict access -> allows duck typing (oh how 
> often I'd missed that)

Dicts and lists don't duck-type because they are very different things.

We know what ["item"]*10 does. What would {"key": "value"}*10 do?

What would list.values() iterate over?


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Steve


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