[Python-ideas] Assignment decorators (Re: The Descriptor Protocol...)

Fri Mar 4 20:06:23 CET 2011

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Ethan Furman wrote:
>> Do we even need the def?
>>>> class Person(object):
>> name as Str()
>> address as Str()
>> I think that would be paring it down a bit foo far -- there's
> not much left to suggest that a name is being bound. At
> least 'def' implies that something is being defined rather
> than just referred to.
>>> we could also add more magic and make the assigned name an available 
>> attribute to the function when it's called.
>> I don't understand. Attribute of what?

Not entirely sure... maybe something along the lines of __name__, etc., 
like __var_name__, which is either the target of the lhs, or None.
class Person():
 name = Str()
 address = Str()
def Str():
 whatever = __var_name__ # 'name' in first call, 'address' in second
 ...
~Ethan~