Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > I'm looking for a way to hide the generation of objects from the caller, > so I could do something like this: > > from Module import factory() as a # a == "Object #1" > from Module import factory() as b # b == "Object #2" > > except of course that syntax is illegal.
That sounds reasonable (zen quotes aside), but it's just not possible in current Python. It would require for any use of "a" in subsequent code to not only refer to an object, but also to automagically call it. I know of no mechanism to do that. While Python allows intricate customization of access to objects, simply referring to a name remains fixed in meaning, probably intentionally. (The "cell" mechanism used to implement closures sounds like it could help, but a cell only stores a single value, not a factory, and it doesn't apply to global variables anyway.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
