On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 05:20:25PM -0400, Todd wrote:
> Another approach could be too simply pass the labelled indices in a dict as
> a third/fourth positional argument.
Why would we want to even consider a new approach to handling keyword
arguments which applies only to three dunder methods, `__getitem__`,
`__setitem__` and `__delitem__`, instead of handling keyword arguments
in the same way that every other method handles them?
That's not a rhetorical question. If there is an advantage to making
this a special case, instead of just following the same rules as all
other methods, I'm open to hearing why it should be treated as a special
case.
> So for indexing
>
> b = arr[1, 2, a=3, b=4]
>
> Instead of
>
> __getitem__(self, (1, 2), a=3, b=4)
>
> Just do
>
> __getitem__(self, (1, 2), {'a': 3, 'b': 4})
That would be the effect of defining your method with signature:
def __getitem__(self, index, **kwargs)
so if you specifically want all your keyword arguments bundled into a
dict, you can easily get it.
--
Steven
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