Obviously my silly name was a placeholder. I don't really have an opinion about the best spelling.
On Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 6:02 PM Steve Jorgensen <ste...@stevej.name> wrote: > David Mertz wrote: > > I have definitely hit this difficulty many times. The part of the code > that > > "just puts something in the collection" doesn't need to care conceptually > > about the kind of collection. Taking the data back out somewhere else > more > > often needs to worry about order, efficiency, concurrency, etc. > > But as I see other comments, I think an external function makes more > sense. > > Sure, list and set could grow a common method. But then what about deque > or > > queue? What about the excellent third part sortedcontainers package? Or a > > Panda Series? Do all of these need to grow that same method? > > I think more flexible would be a callable that also provided a way to > > register how to "just put the item in the container." This could be > > expanded by users only as far as was useful to them. > > Sufficiently refined, I can imagine wanting such a thing in the > collections > > module itself. > > So maybe an API like: > > just_add_it.register(set, set.add) > > just_add_it.register(list, list.append) > > just_add_it.register(Queue, Queue.put) > > just_add_it.register(MyCollection, lambda stuff, item: ...) > > # Later > > just_add_it(the_things, item) > > Then a user can decide where to weigh issues like sets not allowing > mutable > > objects or queues being finite size. > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 5:22 PM Steve Jorgensen ste...@stevej.name wrote: > > > IMO, the problem with the "you can create your own" > > > solution is that this > > > is such a common thing that it seems like it should simply be present > > > rather than having a vast number of applications and libraries each > > > implementing their own unique solutions. > > > > > > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > > > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > > > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > > > Message archived at > > > > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/FUUZZ6. > .. > > > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > > > > How about `push_item(collection, value)` as the method name/signature? > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/N5KY4BK5ZVEUJCYZLVAXTW7P23A4JA4A/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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