Georg Brandl wrote:
> This is not possible. Assignments in the form
>
> name = value
>
> (also called "binding a name") are not overloadable.
footnote: unless you execute the code in a controlled environment:
class mydict(dict):
def __setitem__(self, key, value):
pri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Kind people,
> Is there any way one can, within Python, intercept the act of
> assignment. For instance, suppose that I was obsessed with
> FORTRAN II, and decided that I wanted to print a warning,
> or raise an exception any time someone assigned an int to a
> variable
Roy Smith wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Kind people,
> > Is there any way one can, within Python, intercept the act of
> > assignment.
>
> Sure. You just need to define a __setattr__() method for your class. See
> http://docs.python.org/ref/attribute-access.html for details.
Is it possi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Kind people,
> Is there any way one can, within Python, intercept the act of
> assignment.
Sure. You just need to define a __setattr__() method for your class. See
http://docs.python.org/ref/attribute-access.html for details.
> For instance, suppose that I was obses
Kind people,
Is there any way one can, within Python, intercept the act of
assignment. For instance, suppose that I was obsessed with
FORTRAN II, and decided that I wanted to print a warning,
or raise an exception any time someone assigned an int to a
variable whose name did not start with i,j,k,l
