[Python-Dev] New syntax for 'dynamic' attribute access (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl
Mon Feb 12 09:55:52 CET 2007

On 12-feb-2007, at 0:45, Ben North wrote:

self.(methodname) = self.metadata.(methodname)

I like the functionality, but I don't like the syntax, to me it looks
too much like a method call.

To me self.[method_name] = self.metadata.[method_name] looks better:
what we're doing here is more like dictionary lookup than calling
functions.

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