<div dir="ltr">For whatever weight my opinion holds, I'm +0 on this one. In my estimation, in an ideal world it seems like:<div><br></div><div> class Foo(object):</div><div> def bar(self):</div><div> """Bar!"""</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> # Identical to:</div><div><br></div><div> class Foo(object): pass</div><div><br></div><div> def Foo.bar(self):</div><div> """Bar!"""</div><div><br></div><div>But I think that's going to be hard to achieve given implicit binding of `super` (as some have already mentioned) and more mind-bendingly when user-defined metaclasses are in play. Indeed, with metaclasses, it seems like it become impossible to actually guarantee the equality of the above two blocks of code. Maybe the PEP writers are OK with that, but that should be decided at the outset...</div><div><br></div><div>Also note that if users start adopting this as their default mode of class creation (rather than just <i>class extending</i>), code-folding in a lot of IDEs won't handle it gracefully (at least not for quite a while).</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Joseph Hackman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josephhackman@gmail.com" target="_blank">josephhackman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Generally speaking, I'm +1 on this idea, I think it would make code more readable, especially for tools like IDEs.<br>
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I just wanted to ask: can someone point me to the reason Python doesn't support referencing a class inside it's own definition? It seems like that would solve some of the cases discussed here, and with Type hinting that seems like something that maybe should be considered?<br>
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