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| From | Marco Sulla <marcosullaroma@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar |
| Date | 2016-03-26 01:35 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.25.1458986375.28225.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
| References | <mailman.34.1458721359.2244.python-list@python.org> <56f27d76$0$1600$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> |
Peter Otten wrote: >> I noticed that the sequence types does not have these methods that the map >> types has: get(), items(), keys(), values(). >> It could seem useless to have them for sequences, but I think it will ease >> the creation of functions and methods that allow you to input a generic >> iterable as parameter, but needs to use one of these methods in case the >> parameter is a map. > It will also break existing uses of duck typing. Yes, I suppose it's too late to introduce these methods to sequences. I'd like to see vdict implemented anyway. It can't break old code and add a map type that has a common interface with sequences.
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Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar "Marco S." <mail.python.org@marco.sulla.e4ward.com> - 2016-03-22 20:54 +0100
Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-23 22:26 +1100
Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar Marco Sulla <marcosullaroma@gmail.com> - 2016-03-26 01:18 +0100
Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-26 22:41 +1100
Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar Marco Sulla <marcosullaroma@gmail.com> - 2016-03-26 01:35 +0100
Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-26 10:29 +0000
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