Indeed. Now you can do: import operator foo, bar, baz = operator.itemgetter('foo', 'bar', 'baz')(mapping) But it's verbose, inelegant, and doesn't ha

Indeed. Now you can do: import operator foo, bar, baz = operator.itemgetter('foo', 'bar', 'baz')(mapping) But it's verbose, inelegant, and doesn't handle missing values.