Re: [Pyparsing] Proposed notational shortcut for setResultsName

[Ralph C. <ra...@in...>]

Hi Paul,

> So how about adding a shortcut for setResultsName, using getitem? With this
> short cut, this code:
> 
>     userdata = Word(alphas).setResultsName("name") +
> Word(nums+"-").setResultsName("socsecno")
> 
> could be written as:
> 
>     userdata = Word(alphas)["name"] + Word(nums+"-")["socsecno"]

It just seems odd to use getitem to "set" something, i.e. the results
name.  What about having "_" as an attribute function instead so it
isn't too obtrusive?

    userdata = Word(alphas)._("name") + Word(nums+"-")._("socsecno")

Or

    userdata = Word(alphas, n = "name") + Word(nums+"-", n = "socsecno")

Cheers,


Ralph.