On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 17:06, David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
> I'm kinda leaning -0.5 even on the form that I think is least bad (the
> mode switch approach).
>
> If typing the same variable from the caller to use in the parameter is
> really too much repetition, you could maybe just do this:
>
>
For what matters, when I stopped to think about this, I came out with this
exactly
design!
Maybe this is a 'one obvious way' to deal with it, without changing any
syntax?
> >>> render_template("index.html",
> ... username="display_name",
> ... setups="setups",
> ... **Q("x y z"))
> ('index.html',)
> {'username': 'display_name', 'setups': 'setups', 'x': 1, 'y': 2, 'z': 3}
>
> Perhaps the spelling of `Q` might be something else. But in terms of
> character count, it's not worse than other proposals.
>
> And luckily all you need to do this is get a version of Python later than
> 1.4 or something like that. :-)
>
> >>> def Q(names):
> ... import sys
> ... caller = sys._getframe(1)
> ... dct = {}
> ... for name in names.split():
> ... dct[name] = eval(name, globals(), caller.f_locals)
> ... return dct
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:41 PM Paul Svensson <paul-pyt...@svensson.org>
> wrote:
>
>> For what it's worth, I'm a strong -1 on this whole thing, regardless of
>> syntax.
>> I think passing a lot of same-named parameters is an anti-pattern, that
>> should be discouraged, not made easier.
>> Passing an occasional x=x to so some function no disaster;
>> if it happens often enough to be a problem, IMNSHO, you should look to
>> change your coding style, not the language.
>>
>
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