Kind people, Is there any way one can, within Python, intercept the act of assignment. For instance, suppose that I was obsessed with FORTRAN II, and decided that I wanted to print a warning, or raise an exception any time someone assigned an int to a variable whose name did not start with i,j,k,l,m, or n.
If assigment were an operator, I could, perhaps, subclass something and override the (non-existant)__assign__ method to find the name of the variable and the type of the assigned object, but it ain't so I can't. My guess is that it is simply impossible, but if it IS possible, I would love to know how to do it. Thank you for your time and expertise. Paul --------------------------------------- Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm, and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it. -Paul Hindemith- Paul S. LaFollette, Jr. Temple University CIS Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 215 204 6822 www.cis.temple.edu/~lafollet -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list