[Python-Dev] Extended Function syntax

[Thomas Heller]

holger krekel <pyth@devel.trillke.net> writes:

> IMO none of the new syntax ideas really have much appeal.

I have the same feeling.

> 
> One way to define lightweight properties today is something like
> 
>     foo = property(
>             lambda s: s.__dict__.get('_foo_', 42),
>             lambda s,x: s.__dict__.__setitem__('_foo_', x),
>             lambda s: s.__dict__.__delitem__('_foo_'),
>             "foo property"
>           )

and this is something I actually have done, for readonly computed
properties (without docstring), where this is reduced to

    foo = property(lambda self: self._bar)

All in all, I'm not so unhappy with the current way.

Thomas