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Re: Mapping, with sequence as key, wildcard and subsequence matching

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  Re: Mapping, with sequence as key, wildcard and subsequence matching Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-07-16 15:55 +1000

#93898 — Re: Mapping, with sequence as key, wildcard and subsequence matching

Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> writes:

> On 7/15/2015 9:51 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > What well-defined data type exists with the following properties:
> >
> > * Mapping, key → value.
> >
> > * Each key is a sequence (e.g. `tuple`) of items such as text strings.
> >
> > * Items in a key may be the sentinel `ANY` value, which will match any
> >    value at that position.
> >
> > * A key may specify that it will match *only* sequences of the same
> >    length.
> >
> > * A key may specify that it will match sequences with arbitrarily many
> >    additional unspecified items.
>
> Every key should signal which of the last two alterntives holds. One
> can be a default.  The signal can be 'in-band', in the tuple key
> itself, or 'out-of-band', not in the tuple key.

Thanks. The part which puzzle me though: How do we teach the mapping
type about that matching behaviour?

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