On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 1:14 AM Sven Voigt <svenpvo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Paul, > > I agree that the mapping to a flat data structure might have limited use > cases. However, like you said it is only one example. What I am proposing is > a nested iteration tool that can map both keys and values to new keys and new > values. It only considers nesting in dictionaries, lists, and tuples by > default, but allows users to pass another function to continue searching for > pointers in other types. >
This sounds like the sort of thing that's best coded up specifically to your purposes. There'll be myriad small variants of this kind of traversal, so it's easiest to just write the thing you want, rather than try to get the standard library to support every variant. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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/2IOA23Z33434YWPTQWDPMA5RGJBCPCRZ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
