On 06/20/2019 01:25 PM, nate lust wrote:
--> class Foo: ... def __init__(self, o): ... self.o = o ... def __setself__(self, v): ... self.v = v ...
--> f = Foo(5) --> print(f) <__main__.Foo object at 0x7f486bb8d300>
--> print(f.o) 5
print(f.v) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'Foo' object has no attribute 'v'
--> f = "hello world" --> print(f.v) hello world
--> print(f) <__main__.Foo object at 0x7f486bb8d300>
Thank you for doing the work of a proof-of-concept (and to Andrew Barnert for his excellent write-up). I think this shows exactly why it's a bad idea -- even though I knew what you were doing, having `f` not be a string after the assignment was extremely surprising. -1 -- ~Ethan~