On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:26 PM Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 8:17 AM Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Why not just grow a parse method on str that returns a dict and do it this
>> way?
>>
>>
>> q = "{a} {b}"
>> p = "1 2"
>> (a, b) = q.parse(p)
>
>
> Sorry that should have been:
>
> (a, b) = q.parse(p).values()
>
You're using a dictionary as if it were a tuple. That's going to cause
a LOT of pain when someone does something like:
a, b = "{b} {a}".parse(p).values()
and they come out in the wrong order. Bad bad bad idea. Don't have
names if they're going to be pure lies.
ChrisA
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