not sure where further discussion will be, but absolutely look at the length discussion already on this list, where your question has been much discussed.
-CHB On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 1:01 PM <henr...@princeton.edu> wrote: > Where is the discussion on this PEP going to be? In this thread, or a new > thread? Sorry for not having followed these closely enough to know. I'd > like to point out that boost-histogram and xarray (at least) would love > this as well, as we both (independently) came up with dict-in-index > workarounds for missing keyword arguments. An argument for "why not a > function call" could be added: function calls do not allow assignment, so > `h[x=3] = ...` does not have a pretty functional replacement. > > Also, maybe a mention as to why simply making a new set of magic methods, > `__get_item__(self, *args, **kwargs)` for example, is not a valid option? > The nice thing about that is the current oddity that you can't tell > `[(1,2)]` from `[1, 2]` could also be fixed, along with avoiding all the > special cases mentioned (which are pretty safe). Then a class that defines > the new magic methods would use those instead of the old one, similar to > getslice/setslice/delslice? > _______________________________________________ > 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/7LFLWAS7SPIK3F4TSSMY53J53HJ7F643/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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