On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:37:35 +0200, Reinhold Birkenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dan Sommers wrote: > >> Without thinking it all the way through, I suppose these: >> >> def method_1(self, *self.l): >> pass >> def method_2(self, **self.d): >> pass >> >> could act as if they were these: >> >> def method_1(self, *args): >> self.l = args >> del args >> def method_2(self, **kw): >> self.d = kw >> del kw > >I still think it's too specialized. What would, hypothetically, this do? > >class Bar: pass > >class Foo: > x = Bar() > def method_1(self, x.y): > pass > >It's hard to explain that you can autoassign self.y but not x.y. > No, that limitation wouldn't exist, so you wouldn't have to explain it ;-) I.e., the above would act like class Foo: x = Bar() def method_1(self, _anonymous_arg_1): x.y = _anonymous_arg_1 and would do whatever it would do now (probably look for a global x or a closure cell x, but it wouldn't find the class variable in a normal method call) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list