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

[MRAB]

On 09/03/2011 22:32, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
> On 2011-03-09 01:34, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> All are syntactic sugar for
>>
>> name = makeob('name', *arg, **kwds)
>>
>> For classes and modules there are visibly such alternatives:
>>
>> cls = type('cls',bases, classdict)
>> mod = __import__('mod', ...)
>>
>> There is also a function in inspect that makes functions.
>>
>> So your point is correct:
>>
>> name = makeob('name', ...) # becomes
>>
>> keywd name ....
>>
>> but we do not really want a new keyword for every new type of object
>> with a definition name. Can we do with just one?
>
> Thinking along those lines suggests
>
> def(CharField) foo(size=10, nullable=False)
>
> as sugar for
>
> foo = CharField(size=10, nullable=False, __name__='foo')
>
>
> This seems quite a good parallel to class definitions, though less close
> to function definitions and import statements.
>
In class and function definitions the name immediately follows the
keyword. To me it would be clearer to write it:

     def foo = CharField(size=10, nullable=False)

or similar.