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

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Bruce Leban <bruce at leapyear.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> What Piotr's proposal crystalised for me is the idea that we really
>> have two different kinds of name binding in Python. I'm going to call
>> them "incidental binding" and "definitive binding".
>> ...
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> Nice and clear explanation.
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>>     if hasattr(_ref, "__defname__"):
>> ...
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>> The beauty of this syntax is that it means if we define __defname__
>> appropriately on function objects and on type, then ...
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> Why make __defname__ optional? If the author explicitly sticks a def in
> front of an assignment when they shouldn't, I think that should be an error.
> Do you really want:
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> def a = 3
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> to be allowed?

Good point.

Cheers,
Nick.

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