Re: Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking

2016-06-26 Thread Ari Freund via Python-list
Thanks everybody. There seems to be a lot of resistance to dict unpacking, in addition to the problem with my proposed shorthand dict() initialization syntax pointed out by Steven D'Aprano, so I won't be pursuing this. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking

2016-06-21 Thread Ari Freund via Python-list
I'd like to run this idea by the community to see if it's PEP worthy and hasn't been already rejected. Background Just as keyword arguments enhance code readability and diminish the risk of bugs, so too would named return values. Currently, we can write val1, val2, val3 = myfunc() but we must