[Python-ideas] Syntax for easy binding __name__, __module__, __qualname__ to arbitrary objects

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:

> Paul Moore wrote:
>
>> Overall, I'm somewhat indifferent. The use case seems fairly specialised
>> to me, and yet the syntax "def name = value" seems like it's worth
>> reserving for something a bit more generally useful.
>>
>
> Hmmm. Maybe
>
>    def name = value
>
> could turn into
>
>    name = value.__def__('name', __name__)
>
>

C-esque macros (and perhaps macropy) could implement this and decorators
under the same roof. Perhaps we can somehow solve the more general problem
without introducing macro kludge?

Yuval
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