[Python-ideas] Make-statement [Re: Different interface for namedtuple?]

Fri Mar 25 14:30:28 CET 2011

Hello,
Greg Ewing dixit (2011年03月06日, 12:18):
> For Python, I postulated an "instance" statement that would
> be used something like this:
>> instance Wardrobe(Thing):
>> name = "wardrobe"
> description = "A nice mahogany double-door wardrobe."
>> def take(self):
> print "The wardrobe is too heavy to pick up."

Why don't use a class decorator? E.g.:
 def instance(*args, **kwargs):
 return (lambda cls: cls(*args, **kwargs))
And then simply:
 @instance(...some init args...)
 class Wardrobe(Thing):
 ...
Cheers.
*j