"Bruno Desthuilliers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Terry Reedy wrote: >> "Bruno Desthuilliers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The current namespace object, of course. >> >> Implementing a namespace as a Python object (ie, dict) is completely >> optional and implementation dependent. For CPython, the local namespace >> of >> a function is generally *not* done that way. > > I know this, and that's not the point here. The op's question seemed to > imply that the hypothetical __assign__ method should belong to the rhs > object, which is obviously not the case - it must of course belongs to > the lhs 'object'.
And my point is that in general there is no lhs object for the method to belong to. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list