[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
This is not possible. Assignments in the form name = value (also called "binding a name") are not overloadable. As Roy Smith already noted, assignments in the form name.attribute = value name[item] = value are overloadable via __setattr__ and __setitem__. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
