On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 5:46 PM Erik Demaine <edema...@mit.edu> wrote:
> Have folks thought about allowing indexing dictionary views as in the > following code, where d is a dict object? > > d.keys()[0] > d.keys()[-1] > d.values()[0] > d.values()[-1] > d.items()[0] > d.items()[-1] # item that would be returned by d.popitem() > since dicts were made order-preserving, indexing the keys, items, etc does make some sense. > I've also often wanted to get an arbitrary item/key from a dictionary, and This is indeed one of the use cases identified. I found some related discussion in > > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/thread/QVTGZD6USSC34D4IJG76UPKZRXBBB4MM/ > but not this exact idea. > That's a pretty different idea but this exact idea has been discussed on this list relatively recently. I still like it, but there wan't much general support. I'll leave it exercise for the read to find that thead, but it is there, and I suggest you look for it if you want to further pursue this idea. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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