On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 12:55 PM Jonathan Fine <jfine2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In addition, I would like >> >>> d = dict() >> >>> d[x=1, y=2] = 5 >> to work. It works out-of-the-box for my scheme. >> > 1) it does? could you explain that, I can't see it. 2) so what? -- it would still only work with the next version of Python, and the dict could be updated in that version 3) I don't think I want that to "just work" anyway -- in fact, I have no idea what it means. I can guess that it essentially created something like a namedtuple that is used as a key -- is that correct? in which case, I'm not sure I would want that, as you'd need/want a way to make that same key object outside of indexing, and then you might as well just make it. as an example, you can now do: In [2]: d[1,2] = 'this' In [3]: t = (1,2) In [4]: d[t] Out[4]: 'this' But I'm pretty sure I have never done that before just now, though I have certainly used tuples as keys in dicts. In any case, I'd suggest you keep the discussion of extending dict behavior a bit separate from the more general extension to indexing -- it's fine as an example, but this is not about adding functionality for dicts, and I suspect that dicts are the least interesting use case to most of us. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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