[Python-ideas] Fwd: Define a method or function attribute outside of a class with the dot operator

[Greg Ewing]

Chris Angelico wrote:
> Which is why these proposals always seem to gravitate to "anything you
> can assign to",

There might be some parsing difficulties with that, e.g.

    def foo(x)[5](y, z):
       ...

That should be acceptable, because foo(x)[5] is something
assignable, but foo(x) looks like the beginning of the
definition of a function called foo. I'm not sure whether
the parser would cope with that.

-- 
Greg