[Python-Dev] dict() enhancement idea? (original) (raw)

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:10:02 +0100

Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

name1 = foo() name2 = foo() x = (template)

Where () does a sys.getframe() and automatically sucks the locals and globals for interpolation. Works great, but it gives pychecker fits. :)

You, my friend, are a sick man! But then again, I already knew that ;-)

I like both the **kws addition as well as the keywords-as-attributes conveniences.

I wouldn't propose the latter seriously as an enhancement to the dict object: imagine all the c.l.py posts we'll get of people who do

d = {} d.keys =

and wonder why it blows up later... What Oren posted is a great hack in cases where you more or less know the kind of keys you're going to expect, but it isn't as great as a general feature of dicts.

Just