to say is "wrong" i think is a bit too much, its just a different type of
usage, this type of sintax is extensively used in numpy arrays (extended
slice came from numerical python), just asking why not extend the sintax to
python list. (not sure if you can use None as in the code i posted in numpy
but numbers are ok). I was just rewriting some numpy code in pure python (no
numpy for python3 yet), personally i think the pure python way is just ugly
and more expensive.
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> From: Steven D'Aprano
> To: python-list@python.org
> Date: 02 Jul 2010 23:59:52 GMT
> Subject: Re: Why defaultdict?
> On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:11:49 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> > I would like to better understand some of the design choices made in
> > collections.defaultdict.
> [...]
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> From: Shashwat Anand
> To: Robert William Hanks
> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:32:31 +0530
> Subject: Re: why python don't support "extended slice direct assignment"
> for lists?
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Robert William Hanks <
> astroultra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> why pure python don't support "extended slice direct assignment" for
>> lists?
>>
>> today we have to write like this,
>>
>> >>> aList=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
>> >>> aList
>> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
>> >>> aList[::2]= [None]*len(aList[::2]) #or do the math by hand, what's
>> not always possible
>>
>
> Can you show me a case where it really is cumbersome.
>
>
>> >>> aList
>> [None, 1, None, 3, None, 5, None, 7, None, 9]
>>
>> why not accept syntax like this for extended slice
>>
>> aList[::2] = None
>>
>> when let's say, the left side is a list and the right side is bool, int or
>> float.
>> the laborious [nunber]*len(aList[::2]) seens to me less readable when you
>> want to set lost of items of a list to the same number.
>> Also correct me if i am wrong, calling len() and building a list to this
>> kind of operation seems a waste.
>>
>
> >>> aList[::2]
> [0, 2, 4, 6, 8]
> Which means you are doing [0, 2, 4, 6, 8] = None, which is plain and simple
> - wrong. How will you define the legitimacy of this statement.
> What you are basically doing here is,,
>
> >>> [None]*len(aList[::2])
> [None, None, None, None, None]
> >>> aList[::2]
> [0, 2, 4, 6, 8]
>
> Setting [0, 2, 4, 6, 8] to [None, None, None, None, None], thereby
> operating on two similar data structure (here list)
>
>
>> Just want some feedback.
>>
>
> Just my thoughts.
>
> ~l0nwlf
>
>
>
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> From: abhijeet thatte
> To: python-list@python.org
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:17:36 -0700
> Subject: Sorting dicts inside dicts
> Hi,
> I have a huge dict structure like below:
> *
> {'module':{'reg_dict_0':{'name':'abc','reg_addr':'2004'},
