On 25Nov2009 21:45, Brad <themusicguy...@gmail.com> wrote: | On Nov 25, 10:49 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: | > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 6:35 PM, The Music Guy | > <fearsomedragon...@gmail.com> wrote: | > > I just posted to my blog about a feature that I'd like to see added to | > > Python. Before I go through the trouble of learning how to write a PEP or | > > how to extend the Python interpreter, I want to know what people in the | > > community have to say about it. | > >http://alphaios.blogspot.com/2009/11/python-string-inferred-names-wor... [...] | > Ugly, Perlish, and as you even admit, entirely unnecessary. | > And you'd need to wait at least a year anyway:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/ | | Like I said, lots of things in Python are "unnecessary," but that | doesn't make them "useless," and it certainly doesn't mean they | shouldn't exist. My proposed feature is not useless; I think it would | make a lot of code easier.
The Zen promotes the guideline that there should be only one (obvious) way to do most things and that's a surprisingly effective design rule. For your idea the obvious ways already exist. If you really want this you can achieve nearly the same conciseness by defining __setitem__ and __getitem__ so that: obj[attrname] = foo does what you want. -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ For reading rec.moto, I use one of those carbon-fiber Logitech mice w/a little 'No Fear' sticker on it. - Mike Hardcore DoD#5010 <mo...@netcom.com> Apologies to Primus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
