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

[Michael Selik]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:13 PM Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a possible guide to designing the signatures for binding
> decorators, it's probably worth asking what would be needed to make:
>
>     @bindfunction
>     f = lambda : None
>
> equivalent to:
>
>     def f(): pass
>
> Since the interpreter already sets __module__ and __globals__
> correctly on lambda functions, the main considerations would be to get
> f.__name__ and f.__qualname__ set correctly, which means just the
> immediate target would be insufficient - you'd also want the scope
> naming information that gets included in __qualname__, but is omitted
> from __name__.
>

The ``bindfunction`` function could look up the __module__ and use that to
assign the __qualname__. Would that satisfy?
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