[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Set attribs with .name = value (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at email.com
Tue Mar 30 21:02:17 EST 2004

Quoting Andrew Bennetts <andrew-pythondev at puzzling.org>:

Although this would not (I hope) be a common use-case, what would this code mean:

with foo: def func(arg): .attrib = value pass ? I'm not entirely sure it's safe to say they don't conflict, although I don't see this case as a serious problem.

The proposal would basically be that the above becomes equivalent to:

with foo: def func(arg): with func: .attrib = value

(except that the above wouldn't actually work, as 'func' isn't bound to anything in it's own body)

Personally, I'd prefer to see function attributes made possible by allowing references to the name of the function from within the definition of the function.Eg:

def func(arg):
  func.attrib = value

Then a 'function attribute block' can easily be delimited by using a with block as I do above. However, I don't know if this idea has been considered and discarded in the past.

Cheers, Nick

Nick Coghlan Brisbane, Australia

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