David Mertz wrote: > I have definitely hit this difficulty many times. The part of the code that > "just puts something in the collection" doesn't need to care conceptually > about the kind of collection. Taking the data back out somewhere else more > often needs to worry about order, efficiency, concurrency, etc. > But as I see other comments, I think an external function makes more sense. > Sure, list and set could grow a common method. But then what about deque or > queue? What about the excellent third part sortedcontainers package? Or a > Panda Series? Do all of these need to grow that same method? > I think more flexible would be a callable that also provided a way to > register how to "just put the item in the container." This could be > expanded by users only as far as was useful to them. > Sufficiently refined, I can imagine wanting such a thing in the collections > module itself. > So maybe an API like: > just_add_it.register(set, set.add) > just_add_it.register(list, list.append) > just_add_it.register(Queue, Queue.put) > just_add_it.register(MyCollection, lambda stuff, item: ...) > # Later > just_add_it(the_things, item) > Then a user can decide where to weigh issues like sets not allowing mutable > objects or queues being finite size. > On Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 5:22 PM Steve Jorgensen ste...@stevej.name wrote: > > IMO, the problem with the "you can create your own" > > solution is that this > > is such a common thing that it seems like it should simply be present > > rather than having a vast number of applications and libraries each > > implementing their own unique solutions. > > > > 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/FUUZZ6... > > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > >
How about `push_item(collection, value)` as the method name/signature? _______________________________________________ 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/N5KY4BK5ZVEUJCYZLVAXTW7P23A4JA4A/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
