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

[Sven R. Kunze]

On 01.06.2016 17:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 11:10:19AM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> name -> Function(args)
>>>
>>> will be expanded to:
>>>
>>> name = Function('name', args)
>> Another possibility would be to expand it to
>>
>>     name = Function(args)
>>     name.__name__ = "name"
> That priviledges one specific use of the name over all others. You'll
> note that I was very careful to describe the use-case as "objects that
> need to know their own name" but didn't specify what they did with the
> name. Maybe they bind it to self.__name__, but maybe they use self.name
> instead. Or they write it to a database. Who knows?
>
> I don't think we should specify what the object does with the name.
>

A dunder method could help here. So, the object can decide what to do 
with it.


Best,
Sven