On Tue, 24 May 2022 at 15:42, Jan Costandius <jcostand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think that it would be beneficial for PEP 8 conformance, in the case of
> large nested dicts, if one were able to separate dict indices by a newline.
> What I mean is shown below:
>
> foo["bar"]
> ["baz"]
> ["eggs"]
> ["spam"] = 1
I don't think this looks particularly nice, nor do I see how it helps
with PEP 8. And if the keys are very long, naming the sub-parts is
perfectly viable:
baz = foo["bar"]["baz"]
baz["eggs"]["spam"] = 1
and backslashes, while not particularly attractive, do the job just fine:
foo["bar"] \
["baz"] \
["eggs"] \
["spam"] = 1
Do you have a real-world example of when this would be useful?
Something that doesn't use "fake" keys like bar or baz?
Paul
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