On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 8:40 PM Michael Lee <michael.lee.0...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 1. ...
>
> 2. We can already easily get the same functionality using standard
> Python. E.g., instead of doing foo?["bar"]?[0]?["baz"], we could do
> lookup(foo,
> "bar", 0, "baz") where lookup is a function that looks roughly like
> this:
>
> def lookup(item, *parts):
> for part in parts:
> if item is None:
> return None
> item = item[parts]
> return item
>
>
Try/except also looks decent.
try:
x = foo['bar'][0]
except TypeError:
x = 'default'
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