[Python-Dev] PEP 550 v4

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 13:23:00 -0400
Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > A good point; however, ChainMap, which behaves similarly as far as lookup
> > goes, uses "get" and does not have a "lookup" method.  I think we lose more
> > than we gain by changing that method name.  
> 
> ChainMap is constrained to be a Mapping-like object, but I get your
> point.  Let's see what others say about the "lookup()".  It is kind of
> an experiment to try a name and see if it fits.

I like "get()" better than "lookup()".

Regards

Antoine.