On 8 June 2017 at 08:15, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > If you like this feature, and wish it were in Python, I genuinely wish > you good luck getting it in. My point is just that in precisely that > use case I wouldn't be passing dictionaries that need destructuring > around. I believe that to be the case for most Pythonistas. > (Although several have posted in favor of some way to destructure > dictionaries, typically those in favor of the status quo don't speak > up until it looks like there will be a change.)
The most common use case I find for this is when dealing with JSON (as someone else pointed out). But that's a definite case of dealing with data in a format that's "unnatural" for Python (by definition, JSON is "natural" for JavaScript). While having better support for working with JSON would be nice, I typically find myself wishing for better JSON handling libraries (ones that deal better with mappings with known keys) than for language features. But of course, I could write such a library myself, if it mattered sufficiently to me - and it never seems *that* important :-) Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
