Roy Smith wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Kind people, > > Is there any way one can, within Python, intercept the act of > > assignment. > > Sure. You just need to define a __setattr__() method for your class. See > http://docs.python.org/ref/attribute-access.html for details.
Is it possible that at least one of you has the concepts of "assignment" and "binding" a little mixed? > > > 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. > > Well, you know the old joke, "You can write Fortran in any language" :-) Yes, but it's a bit difficult to express old FORTRAN jokes in another language: real = float integer = int assert isinstance(God, real) and isinstance(Jesus, integer) Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
