Hello, On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 18:26:28 +1100 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 6:08 PM Paul Sokolovsky <pmis...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > One explanation why SimpleNamespace is not in "collections" is > > because ... it's not a collection. One of the basic traits of any > > collection is that it "contains" things, and thus it can be > > directly iterated over to traverse those contents: > > > > for item in collection: ... > > > > SimpleNamespace is not like that. > [] > Ultimately, SimpleNamespace is useless if it can't be found. If people > looking for this are not going to look in types, then either people > need to be educated (good luck with that - you can't fight human > nature), or it needs to be placed where people will find it. Well, I tried to put all devil's advocate counter-arguments I could come up with in the first mail, and have nothing to add. No wait, I have another one! I hope people factored in that typing "collections" is 2.2 times harder than "types" :-D. > Two - deque and defaultdict. Well, I tell me to not write emails before morning coffee, but on weekdays, that's the only time I have for it. But actually, I guess it's only more useful in the wider context, tells us something how well the table at the beginning of https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html is structured for quick-looking, and how logical vs random the order of rows in it ;-). -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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/HZVVDOAHIC2JSACQ7IMABKUXCHJJOSRT/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
