Re: Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 9:41 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 05:34 pm, Ari Freund wrote: > > var3, var1, var2 = **d > > But I don't want to use the key names your function uses. I want to > use names which makes sense for my application > Note that

Re: Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking

On 26 June 2016 at 18:28, Ari Freund via Python-list wrote: > Thanks everybody. There seems to be a lot of resistance to dict unpacking, > in addition to the problem with my proposed shorthand dict() initialization > syntax pointed out by Steven D'Aprano, so I won't be

Re: Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking

Thanks everybody. There seems to be a lot of resistance to dict unpacking, in addition to the problem with my proposed shorthand dict() initialization syntax pointed out by Steven D'Aprano, so I won't be pursuing this. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking

On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 05:34 pm, Ari Freund wrote: > I'd like to run this idea by the community to see if it's PEP worthy and > hasn't been already rejected. > > Background > Just as keyword arguments enhance code readability and diminish the risk > of bugs, so too would named > return values. I

Re: Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 10:14 AM Terry Reedy wrote: > On 6/21/2016 3:34 AM, Ari Freund via Python-list wrote: > > I'd like to run this idea by the community to see if it's PEP worthy and > > hasn't been already rejected. > > > There was a recent (last couple of months?)

Re: Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking

On 2016-06-21 18:12, Terry Reedy wrote: On 6/21/2016 3:34 AM, Ari Freund via Python-list wrote: I'd like to run this idea by the community to see if it's PEP worthy and hasn't been already rejected. Background Just as keyword arguments enhance code readability and diminish the risk of bugs, so

Re: Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking

On 6/21/2016 3:34 AM, Ari Freund via Python-list wrote: I'd like to run this idea by the community to see if it's PEP worthy and hasn't been already rejected. Background Just as keyword arguments enhance code readability and diminish the risk of bugs, so too would named return values.

Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking

I'd like to run this idea by the community to see if it's PEP worthy and hasn't been already rejected. Background Just as keyword arguments enhance code readability and diminish the risk of bugs, so too would named return values. Currently, we can write val1, val2, val3 = myfunc() but we must