[Python-ideas] anonymous object support

[Mike Graham]

2011/8/5 dag.odenhall at gmail.com <dag.odenhall at gmail.com>
> 2011/8/4 Matej Lieskovský <lieskovsky.matej at googlemail.com>:
> > ...
> > perhaps a "namespace" statement would do, behaving somewhat like this:
> > namespace MyObject:
> >     statements
> > is equivalent to:
> > class MyClass(object):
> >     statements
> > MyObject = MyClass()
> > MyClass = None
> >  ...

As a somewhat off-topic remark, this could already be accomplished
with metaclasses. We could write

def namespace(name, bases, d):
    return type(name, bases, d)()

trivially then use it like

class MyObject(metaclass=namespace):
    statements

which is really quite slick conceptually. Syntactically, this is ugly
and the terminology we use seems to confuse people.

If Python was to introduce new syntax for this, it would ideally solve
the broader problem here.


Mike