On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:52 PM, David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
> I know. I elided including the nonexistent `nonlocals()` in there. But it > *should* be `lngb()`. Or call it scope(). :-) > On Aug 10, 2015 10:09 AM, "Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 06:14:18PM -0700, David Mertz wrote: >> >> [...] >> > That said, there *is* one small corner where I believe f-strings add >> > something helpful to the language. There is no really concise way to >> spell: >> > >> > collections.ChainMap(locals(), globals(), __builtins__.__dict__). >> >> I think that to match the normal name resolution rules, nonlocals() >> needs to slip in there between locals() and globals(). I realise that >> there actually isn't a nonlocals() function (perhaps there should be?). >> >> > If we could spell that as, say `lgb()`, that would let str.format() or >> > %-formatting pick up the full "what's in scope". To my mind, that's the >> > only good thing about the f-string idea. >> >> I like the concept, but not the name. Initialisms tend to be hard >> to remember and rarely self-explanatory. How about scope()? >> > #letsgoblues! scope(**kwargs), lngb(**kwargs), lookup(**kwargs) could allow for local attr override. > >> >> -- >> Steve >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/mertz%40gnosis.cx >> > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/wes.turner%40gmail.com > >
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