Dominik Vilsmeier wrote: > I'm not sure if this is doable from the compiler perspective, but what > about allowing tuples after `**` unpacking: > > requests.post(url, **(data, params)) > > # similar to > requests.post(url, data=data, params=params)
+1. I can see the practical utility of the feature, but was strongly against the other syntax proposals so far. IMO, the above alternative does a great job of using an existing feature, and I think it would be rather easy to explain how it works. On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 3:06 PM Dominik Vilsmeier <dominik.vilsme...@gmx.de> wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is doable from the compiler perspective, but what > about allowing tuples after `**` unpacking: > > requests.post(url, **(data, params)) > > # similar to > requests.post(url, data=data, params=params) > > Probably some magic would need to happen in order to merge the names > with their values, but the same is true for the `post(url, data=, > params=)` syntax. > > > On 16.04.20 18:57, oliveira.rodrig...@gmail.com wrote: > > @StevenDAprano and this goes for @RhodriJames , thank you for sharing your > > point of view. Indeed the proposed syntax is obscure and would not be that > > readable for beginners. > > > > Couldn't we work around this so? The concept is still good for me just the > > syntax that is obscure, maybe something like this would work: > > > > ```python > > # '*' character delimits that subsequent passed parameters will be passed > > # as keyword arguments with the same name of the variables used > > self.do_something(positional, *, keyword) > > # this would be equivalent to: > > self.do_something(positional, keyword=keyword) > > ``` > > I believe this is readable even if you don't know Python: `positional` and > > `keyword` are being passed as parameters, the `*` character is mysterious > > at first but so it is in `def foo(a, *, b)` and it doesn't get into the way > > of basic readability. > > > > Rodrigo Martins de Oliveira > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/N2ZY5NQ5T2OJRSUGZJOANEQOGEQIYYIK/ > > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/S44VDMZ4AFBSGIQEVWMKKWOW4P6WRVXY/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ _______________________________________________ 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/ZJ5FROVGX7WM5OPNAWPSGSUSBDWW33L5/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
