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

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On 26 June 2016 at 18:28, Ari Freund via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:
> 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.
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> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

something like:

a, b, c = my_magic_reordering_func(mydict, ["alpha", "beta", "charlie"])

..is not too far off, altho it is a little repetitive is is trivial to
write in current python and reaches the goal of insulating you from
some degree of change in the return value. can also be extended to
work with namedtuple for example (which you probably should already be
using if you want to return so many arguments that this is a problem,
returning several arguments is already returning a tuple under the
hood afterall)

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Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking Ari Freund <arief@google.com> - 2016-06-21 10:34 +0300
  Re: Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-22 11:35 +1000
    Re: Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-06-26 18:17 +0000
  Re: Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking arief@google.com - 2016-06-26 08:28 -0700
    Re: Proposal: named return values through dict initialization and unpacking Joonas Liik <liik.joonas@gmail.com> - 2016-06-26 18:50 +0300

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