Re: [Python-ideas] Syntax for easy binding __name__, __module__, __qualname__ to arbitrary objects

On 05/13/2013 05:03 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

I'd like to propose something a bit different:

def name as expr(arg, ...)

which would expand to something like

name = expr(arg, ..., __name__ = 'name', __module__ = 'module')

For example,

def Animal as Enum('cat dog platypus')

This reads quite naturally: "define Animal as an Enum with these arguments."

Another example based on my own use case:

def width as overridable_property("The width of the widget.")

+1 for the idea

(Yes, this is yet another, different use of the word "as", but I don't see anything wrong with that. Small words in English often don't mean much on their own and derive most of their meaning from their context.)

and another +1 :) -- ~Ethan~