On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 03:18 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> One thing that is a bit laborious in python are object initializers: >> >> self.attr1 = field1 >> self.attr2 = field2 >> >> In VB one can do: >> >> with self >> .attr1 = field1 >> .attr2 = field2 >> >> (or something like that -- dont exactly remember the syntax) > > > Pascal is another language with a construct like that, and there's a FAQ for > it: > > https://docs.python.org/2/faq/design.html#why-doesn-t-python-have-a-with-statement-for-attribute-assignments
While I don't advocate the proposal, it does have an important difference from the one cited in the FAQ - albeit a Tim-grit difference: the Pascal version has implicit attribute notation, where the proposed has a leading dot. This eliminates the ambiguity, though without majorly improving readability. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
