[Python-ideas] Quick idea: defining variables from functions that take the variable name

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 31, 2016, at 01:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

>This comes up a lot and it would be nice to clean it up.
>
>T = type('T', bases, ns)
>Record = namedtuple('Record', fields)
>
>It came up in the discussion on dict unpacking:
>
>a, b, c = **dict  # unpacks keys 'a', 'b', 'c'
>
>which was rejected as too magical. But maybe it will seem less magical if we
>have a special assignment operator that takes the left hand symbol(s) and
>copies them to the right?

It also comes up in @public for constants, which I currently support as:

public(a=SomeA())

Cheers,
-Barry
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