[Python-ideas] Vectorization [was Re: Add list.join() please]

[David Mertz]

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 3:17 PM Christopher Barker <pythonchb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >    vec_seq = Vector(seq)
> >    (vec_seq * 2).name.upper()
> >    # ... bunch more stuff
> >    seq = vec_seq.unwrap()
>
> what type would .unwrap() return?
>

The idea—and the current toy implementation/alpha—has .unwrap return
whatever type went into the Vector creation.  Might be a tuple, list, set,
deque, or it might be an iterator.  It might even be some custom collection
that isn't in the standard library.

But you can also explicitly make a Vector into something else by using that
constructor.  Pretty much as I gave example before:

    set(Vector(a_list))             # Get a set
    Vector(a_list)).unwrap()    # Get a list (without needing to know type
to call .unwrap())

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