On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:26:24 -0400, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a suggestion I don't remember seeing for flagging which vars to > autoinit without new syntax: use '_' instead of '.'. I have never seen > local vars with a leading '_'. So, in combination with whatever other > mechanism (metaclass, __init__ decorator?) > def __init__(self, _x, y, _z) : > would automatically do self.x = _x, self.z = _z, but not self.y = y. > Terry J. Reedy That's a pretty big change; now all formal parameters beginning with an underscore have a brand new meaning. How about this: def __init__(self, self.x, y, self.z): # self.x, self.z from first and third explicit parameters do_something_with_y() where "self" in "self.x" and "self.y" would have to match the first parameter (so that the pathological among us could write this: def __init__(this, this.x, y, this.z): do_something_with_y() instead). (Sorry if this posts multiple times; gnus and/or my news server were not happy when I was composing this reply.) Regards, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list