On Wed, 4 May 2022 at 12:27, Dr. Guta Gábor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This proposal is about adding a builtin function or a package to the standard 
> library to access an element in an object hierarchy with default behavior 
> i.e. if at any level the attribute/key/index does not exist in the path the 
> function returns a default value.
[...]
> I created a package to demonstrate the idea: 
> https://github.com/axonmatics/quickpath

There's another PyPI library "glom" that does this sort of thing.

I'm not sure there's enough need for this that it should be in the
stdlib. And I'm certain it isn't sufficiently common to justify being
a builtin.

Paul
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