[Python-ideas] Augmented assignment syntax for objects.

[Erik]

On 26/04/17 08:59, Paul Moore wrote:
> It should be possible to modify the decorator to take a list
> of the variable names you want to assign, but I suspect you won't like
> that

Now you're second-guessing me.

 > class MyClass:
 >     @auto_args('a', 'b')
 >     def __init__(self, a, b, c=None):
 >         pass

I had forgotten that decorators could take parameters. Something like 
that pretty much ticks the boxes for me.

I'd _prefer_ something that sits inside the method body rather than just 
outside it, and I'd probably _prefer_ something that wasn't quite so 
heavyweight at runtime (which may be an irrational concern on my part 
;)), but those aren't deal breakers, depending on the project - and the 
vast majority of what I do in Python is short-lived one-off projects and 
rapid prototyping for later implementation in another language, so I do 
seem to be fleshing out a set of classes from scratch and writing a 
bunch of __init__ methods far more of the time than people with 
long-lived projects would do. Perhaps that's why it irritates me more 
than it does some others ;)

E.