What if it's a list of objects instead of a list of dicts? List comprehension already makes this easy: [i['name'] for i in l] I don't think this would add as much in python as it adds in javascript. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:10:03AM +0300, Cenk Alt?? <cenkalti at gmail.com> wrote: >> pluck() is a beautiful function which is in underscore.js library. >> Described as "A convenient version of what is perhaps the most common >> use-case for map: extracting a list of property values." >>>> http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/#pluck >>>> What about it implementing for python lists? And maybe for other iterables? >> Like operator.attrgetter? > http://docs.python.org/library/operator.html#operator.attrgetter >> Oleg. > -- > Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ phd at phdru.name > Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas