On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Andrey Fedorov <anfedorov@gmail.com> wrote:
George Sakkis wrote:
Thoughts ?
I liked the idea, then realized that I was misunderstanding it deeply. I would have expected
@setattr('key', "value") def bar(): pass
make
bar.key == "value"
Yeah that would be a useful decorator too; I'd actually use **kwargs so that you could do multiple bindings at once with @setattr(key1=value1, key2=value2, ...).
This was just my intuition from hearing "setattr decorator" and glancing over your email. But deceiving name aside, I think this is a useful decorator. I would just call it @method_of.
I agree that overloading setattr() would be a bad idea given the two (at least) different interpretations. Still "method_of" is not quite right either since it can also be used as a class decorator; moreover the 'obj' argument does not have to be a class, it can be a plain instance. George