Thanks Abe for the insight.
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Abe Dillon wrote:
> Welcome to the group, Joannah!
>
> Now that you've been introduced to packing and unpacking in Python, I
> would suggest learning the complete syntax, because it's a very useful
> feature.
>
> >>> a, b = "hi" # you
I ha d not read all the e-mails in the thread - but just to announce
to people eager for a similar feature -
I have a package on pypi that enables one to do:
In [74]: with extradict.MapGetter({'a': 1}) as d:
...: from d import a
...:
In [75]: a
Out[75]: 1
(just pip install extradict )
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Abe Dillon wrote:
> >>> a, *b = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 # NOTE: Most itterables unpack starred
> variables as a list
> >>> type(b)
>
>
> >>> a, *b = "except strings"
> >>> type(b)
>
>
I was just playing around with this, and on Python 3.5.3, I see strings
unpacked as li
No. You're right. I don't know why I thought strings were treated
differently.
On Jun 9, 2017 7:47 AM, "Mark E. Haase" wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Abe Dillon wrote:
>
>> >>> a, *b = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 # NOTE: Most itterables unpack starred
>> variables as a list
>> >>> type(b)
>>
>>
a few notes:
>From the OP:
It would be cool to have a syntax that would unpack the dictionary to
> values based on the names of the variables. Something perhaps like:
>
> a, b, c = **mydict
>
> which would assign the values of the keys 'a', 'b', 'c' to the variables.
>
a number of alternatives h
