[Python-ideas] Fwd: Define a method or function attribute outside of a class with the dot operator
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Sat Feb 11 23:38:58 EST 2017
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 06:33:39PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> 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.
Forget the parser. I know *I* can't cope with that.
*wink*
--
Steve
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