[Python-ideas] Fwd: About calling syntax

[Georg Brandl]

Zaur Shibzoukhov schrieb:
> Returning to initial topic of my posts I said about calling function
> in the case:
> 
> class Element(object):
>     def __init__(self, name, *args, **kw):
>       self.__dict__.update(kw)
>       self.chidren.extend(args)
> 
> I tried to find more natural form of initializing such tree-like
> structures in python.
> In current syntax the only available form (which is natural to me) is:
> 
> Element('root',
>    x='1', y='2', *[
>    Element('child1',
>       x='1', y='2', *[
>       Element(''grandchild1', x='4', y='6'),
>       Element(''grandchild2', x='7', y='8')
>    ]),
>    Element(''grandchild1', x='4', y='6')
> ])
> 
> I hoped that python calling syntax could be extended in order to allow
> writing such initializaing code without *[ ... ]

Element('root',
    x='1', y='2', c=[
    Element('child1',
       x='1', y='2', c=[
       Element(''grandchild1', x='4', y='6'),
       Element(''grandchild2', x='7', y='8')
    ]),
    Element(''grandchild1', x='4', y='6')
])

Voila! ;)

Georg

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