[Python-ideas] PEP pre-draft: Support for indexing with keyword arguments

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Jul 4 22:19:02 CEST 2014


On 07/04/2014 01:10 PM, Tim Delaney wrote:
>
> 1. I think you absolutely *must* address the option of purely syntactic
> sugar in the PEP. It will come up on python-dev, so address it now.
>
>      a[b, c=f, e=f:g:h]
>      -> a[b, 'c':d, 'e':slice(f, g, h)]


> +1 for syntax-sugar only (zero backwards-compatibility concerns).

Also +1 for this approach.

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~Ethan~


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