[Python-ideas] Idea : for smarter assignment?

[MRAB]

On 2017-07-25 18:02, Nick Timkovich wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:59 PM, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx 
> <mailto:mertz at gnosis.cx>> wrote:
> 
>     But you've left out quite a few binding operations.  I might forget
>     some, but here are several:
> 
> 
> Ned Batchelder had a good presentation at PyCon 2015 about 
> names/values/assignments/binding: https://youtu.be/_AEJHKGk9ns?t=12m52s 
> His summary of all assignment operators:
> 
> X = ...
> for X in ...
> class X: pass
> def X: pass
> def fn(X): # when called, X is bound
> import X
> from ... import X
> except ... as X:
> with ... as X:
> 
There's also:

import ... as X
from ... import ... as X

> ...I think only includes one other assignment type from what you listed 
> (function parameters) that ironically is where one could maybe blur =/:, 
> as doing f(x=3) and f(**{x: 3}) are usually similar (I think some C 
> functions react poorly?).
>