On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:04 PM Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 8:34 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:26 PM Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 8:17 AM Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Why not just grow a parse method on str that returns a dict and do it
>> >> this way?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> q = "{a} {b}"
>> >> p = "1 2"
>> >> (a, b) = q.parse(p)
>> >
>> >
>> > Sorry that should have been:
>> >
>> > (a, b) = q.parse(p).values()
>> >
>>
>> You're using a dictionary as if it were a tuple. That's going to cause
>> a LOT of pain when someone does something like:
>>
>> a, b = "{b} {a}".parse(p).values()
>>
>> and they come out in the wrong order. Bad bad bad idea. Don't have
>> names if they're going to be pure lies.
>>
>> ChrisA
>
>
> I'm not sure I understand the point you are making here since dictionaries
> have preserved order since python 3.6...?
>
> The same problem exists here:
>
> a, b = 2, 1
> assert a == 1. # whoops got the order wrong
>
But you don't have any sort of lie in the RHS about the name mapping.
It's just a sequence, so people will expect it to be a sequence. If
the parser incorporates names, people will expect it to use those
names. Why have it return a dictionary if you're going to assume and
mandate that it be a sequence?
ChrisA
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