[Python-Dev] Extended Function syntax (original) (raw)

Lalo Martins lalo@laranja.org
Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:59:23 -0200

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:32:11AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I have no idea what you mean by this. This doesn't look like Python at all.

I guess he meant that a method that has its first argument named "class" is automagically a class method. I strongly object.

(Besides, he seems to want a class init, which isn't really needed - this is what the class declaration body is for)

However this could work:

class Foo(object): myprop = property: """A computed property on Foo objects.""" def get(self): return ... def set(self, value): ... def delete(self): ...

This would call property() with the results of parsing the indented block. Not sure yet this is a good idea, but it could have many other (possibly good, possibly harmful) uses.

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