[Python-ideas] Quick idea: defining variables from functions that take the variable name

[Brendan Barnwell]

On 2016-06-01 06:29, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> Another possibility would be (requiring no syntax change):
>
>       name = function(args)
>
> would always be expanded to
>
>       name = function(args)
>       name.__name__ = "name"

	I'm really against approaches like this that involve explicitly setting 
a special dunder attribute.  What I want from this syntax is for the RHS 
expression to be able to use the string value of the variable name in 
whatever way it wants to; restricting it to setting a hard-coded dunder 
name is not solving the problem.  What if, for instance, `function` is a 
factory function that defines a class at runtime, and that class has its 
own __name__, but the class (or `function`) wants to use the variable 
name for something else?

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Brendan Barnwell
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