[Python-Dev] itemgetter/attrgetter extension (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Thu Mar 10 12:19:16 CET 2005

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

Any objections to extending itemgetter() and attrgetter() to be able to extract multiple fields at a time?

# SELECT name, rank, serialnum FROM soldierdata map(attrgetter('name', 'rank', 'serialnum'), soldierdata) # SELECT * FROM soldierdata ORDER BY unit, rank, proficiency sorted(soldierdata, key=attrgetter('unit', 'rank', 'proficiency'))

Breaking the symmetry with getattr() bothers me a little, as does the signature change that occurs when multiple arguments are given (returning a tuple, whereas the single argument returns just the retrieved attribute).

For itemgetter, I'd like to see multiple arguments eventually map to multi-dimensional slices (to preserve symmetry with indexing syntax).

Call it -1 for itemgetter and -0 for attrgetter.

Cheers, Nick.

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