[Python-ideas] Debugging: some problems and possible solutions

[Anders Hovmöller]

>>>> foo(=a, =1+bar)
>> 
>>> Unfortunately, that won't help with Jonathan's inital example
>>> expression "big_array[5:20]" as it's not a valid keyword.
>> 
>> I didn't understand that. The example you are referring to is
>> print('big_array[5:20] =', big_array[5:20])
>> 
>> Nothing is a keyword in that example or in my example. My suggestion is that we could do:
>> my_func(=big_array[5:20])
>> 
>> And it would be compile time transformed into
>> my_func(**{'big_array[5:20]': big_array[5:20]})
>> 
>> and then my_func is just a normal function:
>> 
>> def my_func(**kwargs):
>>     Whatever
> 
> You're right, that case will work. I was thinking of
> 
> In [1]: foo(a+b=1)
>  File "<ipython-input-1-61f24dcb4c20>", line 1
>    foo(a+b=1)
>       ^
> SyntaxError: keyword can't be an expression

Sure. But no one suggested it either so I don't see how it's relevant. 

/ Anders