[Python-Dev] Dotted/indexed defs ? Re: PEP 8: Discourage named lambdas? (original) (raw)

Boris Borcic bborcic at gmail.com
Mon May 5 12:43:14 CEST 2008


Mike Klaas wrote:

Another thing to consider is that the def() pattern is only possible when the bound variable has no dots. A common pattern for me is to replace an instances method with a lambda to add monitoring hooks or disable certain functionality:

inst.getfoo = lambda: FakeFoo()

Good point. That one may write eg

 for inst.bar in range(10) : do_something()

makes one wonder whether

 def inst.bar(...) : ...

or even

 def fn[k](...) : ...

should be similarly permitted. Has this ever been discussed ?

Regards, BB



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