On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 1:45 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > On 27/12/20 3:03 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > > But that would mean that a lot of iterables would look like mappings > > when they're not. > > In the context of ** you're expecting a mapping, not a sequence. >
Exactly; and under the proposal I was replying to, ANY object would look like a mapping if you can iterate over it and subscript it - which means all sequences look like mappings, just broken ones. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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/SRQFBK65CGYETKVHZPFCY6NNA4N73NBW/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/