[Python-ideas] Dictionary destructing and unpacking.

[Lucas Wiman]

>
> Maps with a known, fixed set of keys are relatively uncommon
> in Python, though.


This is false in interacting with HTTP services, where frequently you're
working with deserialized JSON dictionaries you expect to be in a precise
format (and fail if not).

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> C Anthony Risinger wrote:
>
>> Incredibly useful and intuitive, and for me again, way more generally
>> applicable than iterable unpacking. Maps are ubiquitous.
>>
>
> Maps with a known, fixed set of keys are relatively uncommon
> in Python, though. Such an object is more likely to be an
> object with named attributes.
>
> --
> Greg
>
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