[Python-ideas] Augmented assignment syntax for objects.

[Tin Tvrtković]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:07 PM Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, the point I attempted to raise earlier: at the language design
> level, "How do we make __init__ methods easier to write?" is the
> *wrong question* to be asking. It's treating the symptom (writing an
> imperative initialiser is repetitive when it comes to field names)
> rather than the root cause (writing imperative initialisers is still
> part of the baseline recommendation for writing classes, and we don't
> offer any supporting infrastructure for avoiding that directly in the
> standard library) [...]
>


Very well put. I also can't help but hope these efforts lead to Python also
acquiring better tools for dealing with structured data (instances of
classes and enumerations) down the road. Like a Pythonic version of Rust's
match, for example. That would be really something.
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