[Python-ideas] Augmented assignment syntax for objects.

[Matt Gilson]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Erik <python at lucidity.plus.com> wrote:

> On 25/04/17 22:15, Brice PARENT wrote:
>
>> it may be easier to get something like this
>> (I think, as there is no new operator involved) :
>>
>
> No new operator, but still a syntax change, so that doesn't help from that
> POV.
>
>
>> def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
>>       self.* = *args
>>       self.** = **kwargs
>>
>
> What is "self.* = *args" supposed to do? For each positional argument,
> what name in the object is it bound to?
>
> E.


For what it's worth, that's what I don't really like about the initially
proposed syntax too ...

    self .= foo, bar, baz

works OK, but:

    tup = foo, bar, baz
    self .= tup

doesn't work.  Admittedly, that could be part of the definition of this
feature, but it feels really unexpected to all of a sudden give my tuple a
temporary name and have the code behave in a dramatically different fashion.


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