Please read PEP 505 before rehashing this old idea.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 06:35 Daniel. <danielhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I need to traverse nested dicts, is a common pattern to do
>
> somedict.get('foo', {}).get('bar', {})
>
> But there is no such equivalent for arrays, wouldn't be nice if we can
> follow
>
> somedict.get('foo', {}).get('bar', []).get(10) ... ?
>
> What I do in this case is surround with try/except IndexError and set some
> variable to None, or wrap the try/except block in a function. But this is
> noise in my opinion, I just want to follow the same reasoning that I have
> with dicts: I'm searching for some path deep nested, and want a default if
> not found.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards
>
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