[Python-ideas] Adding list.pluck()

[Calvin Spealman]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Cenk Altı <cenkalti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> pluck() is a beautiful function which is in underscore.js library.
> Described as "A convenient version of what is perhaps the most common
> use-case for map: extracting a list of property values."
>
> http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/#pluck
>
> What about it implementing for python lists? And maybe for other iterables?

This is a case where a simple list comprehension or generator
expression would be a lot easier to understand than remembering what a
rarely used method name does. Also, it couples two distinct
interfaces, iterables and mappings, in a way that is generally frowned
upon in Python.

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