Just a few things that have wanted while doing python programming. Maybe some of these are already doable or are already on someone's wish list...
-- The __main__ module should contain a file path like imported modules. in other words, every module should know where it came from. In fact, I see no reason why the __main__ module should have any different attributes than an imported module other than the name. -- An easy way to make a case-insensitive, case-preserving dict that works with regular string keys. -- An easy way to iterate over key, value pairs in a dict in sorted order. Currently you have to get the list of keys, sort them, and then lookup each value, OR you have to get the list of tuples and call sorted() with a key= arg containing a lambda function that extracts the first tuple element. (Another one of my wild ideas was an "order by" clause for list comprehensions, but let's not go there.) -- A simple way to import all modules in a directory (this would be used for plugins) -- A mechanism whereby imported modules can import symbols from the module that imported them. (Specifically, I want to take a bunch of variables in my __main__ module and make them accessible to the imported module.) -- The module class should have a method to iterate over child modules. Currently you can iterator through all of its attributes, but you have to filter out which ones are modules. -- A path-globbing function that supports regex-style captures. -- A path-globbing function that supports the perforce-style syntax "..." (three dots) to mean "all descendants". So for example, "foo/.../*.cpp" matches any cpp files in foo or any of its subdirectories. That should be enough for the moment. -- Talin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
