>
> instead of prefixing a letter, we may be able to omit the key of
> items inside dict display.
d = {:name, :addr, ’tel': '123-4567’}
>
This is my favorite variation on the notation so far. I'll give it a +1
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:49 AM Atsuo Ishimoto <ishim...@python.jp> wrote:
> Hi
> Thank you for comments
>
> 2020年6月10日(水) 12:12 Stephen J. Turnbull <
> turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp>:
> > DTRTs. How often would locals() be usable in this way? Note: in the
> > case of requests, this might be a vulnerability, because the explicit
> > dict display would presumably include only relevant items, while
> > locals() might inherit private credentials from the arguments, which
> > need to be explicitly del'ed from d.
>
> And in case of locals() is useful, the code may eventually become
> unsafe someday later.
>
> > I understand that this was done for ease of your POC implementatation,
> > and you prefer a letter. But I'd like to emphasize: Please don't use
> > $ for this. Among other things, it is both in appearance and
> > historically based on "S" for "set"!
> >
>
> I don't like it, either. But choice of valid letters are limited to
> such as “$", "'" and "?".
> So I think '$' is the best choice among these letters ;)
>
> > Also, please use dict display syntax (':' not '=').
> >
>
> Ah, this is a typo. I use ':' in my implementation.
>
> > If you're going to use prefix characters, I suggest 'd' for "dict",
> > and maybe 's' for "set" as well (to allow the use case 's{}' for the
> > empty set, though that's not terribly useful vs. set(). I'm mostly
> > proposing it so I be the first to say "-1" on 's{}'. :-)
> >
>
> 'd{}' would be a nice choice.
> >
> > It occurs to me there's an alternative syntax with even less notation:
> >
> > d = {'tel' : '123-456-789', first, last, addr1, addr2}
> >
>
> This is acceptable, but I prefer prefixed dict better.
>
> Or, instead of prefixing a letter, we may be able to omit the key of
> items inside dict display.
>
> d = {:name, :addr, ’tel': '123-4567’}
>
> Thoughts?
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