On Jun 14, 4:02 am, kindly <kin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am sure people have thought of this before, but I cant find where.
> I think that python should adapt a way of defining different types of
> mapping functions by proceeding a letter before the curly brackets.
> i.e ordered = o{}, multidict = m{} (like paste multidict). So you
> could define an ordered dict by newordered = o{"llvm" : "ptyhon",
> "parrot" : "perl"} . (they should also probably have there own
> comprehensions as well o{foo for bar in foobar}).
That kind of stuff is highly explosive, unfortunately. o{ }, m{ }, d
[ ], and q[ ] are just a few. But 'collections' is kind of sparse. I
expect you would also want users to be able to define their own
prefixes, no? As is, the syntax is not atrocious:
oA= OrderedDict( [ ( pair1 ), ( pair2 ) ]
oA= o{ pair1, pair2 }
At least you can still include literals, and are not restricted to per-
line additions as in C.
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> Most packages that I have seen re-
> implement these different container types at one point anyway. It
> seems a shame they are not brought up to the top level, with
> potentially new, cleverer ones that have not been thought of yet.
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Do you merely want to populate the 'collections' module, or are the
prefixes essential to your idea?
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