PEP Idea: Multi-get for lists/tuples and dictionaries (inspired in NumPy)

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/18/2020 10:28 PM, Santiago Basulto wrote:

> For dictionaries it'd even be more useful:
>      d = {
>          'first_name': 'Frances',
>          'last_name': 'Allen',
>          'email': 'fallen at ibm.com'
>      }
>      fname, lname = d[['first_name', 'last_name']]

Insert ordered dicts make this sort of thing less useful.

 >>> d = {
         'first_name': 'Frances',
         'last_name': 'Allen',
         'email': 'fallen at ibm.com'
}
 >>> fname, lname, _ = d
 >>> fname, lname
('first_name', 'last_name')



-- 
Terry Jan Reedy