[Python-ideas] Assignment decorators (Re: The Descriptor Protocol...)

[Ethan Furman]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> I've also had another idea on how to approach the problem
> without involving the decorator concept:
> 
>   def name as something(arg, ...)
> 
> would be equivalent to
> 
>   name = something('name', arg, ...)
> 
[snip]
> 
> or
> 
>   def Fred as namedtuple('x y z')

This I like.  Do we even need the def?

class Person(object):
     name    as Str()
     address as Str()

I don't think I've seen it mentioned yet (my apologies if I missed it), 
but we could also add more magic and make the assigned name an available 
attribute to the function when it's called.

~Ethan~