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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Deprecate slice __getitem__ and __setitem__ on HumanName","articleBody":"The list/dict emulation on `HumanName` is wider than its value:\n\n- `name[1:-3]` slices the internal members list positionally — the oddest surviving API (currently a usage.rst example); field access by position has no real use case\n- `name['first'] = x` duplicates plain attribute assignment\n\nKeep: `name['first']` string-key access (harmless, useful for dynamic field names), and `__iter__`/`__len__` — `len(name) == 0` was enshrined in 1.3.0 as the emptiness check when `unparsable` was removed, and `__str__` iterates for the `string_format=None` path.\n\n## Bridge (1.4) — tracked in #263\n\n- [ ] `DeprecationWarning` on slice `__getitem__` and on `__setitem__`\n- [ ] Replace the usage.rst slicing example\n\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/derek73","@type":"Person","name":"derek73"},"datePublished":"2026-07-06T07:45:12.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/258/python-nameparser/issues/258"}