SyntaxError: can't assign to function call win32com.client

[Hans Nowak]

On 1 Dec 99, at 18:35, tiddlerdeja at my-deja.com wrote:

> I'm trying to mirror this VB code (which works) with python code:
> 
> objUser.DynamicProperty("BILLING_ADDRESS2") = "3 The Street"
> 
> This code works in VB but in python I get the error:
> 
> SyntaxError: can't assign to function call
> 
> Can you tell me what syntax I need to use for python?
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated. I don't want to have to use VB!

This behavior is maybe best mimicked by using dictionaries. A simple 
example:

class User:
    def __init__(self):
        self.DynamicProperty = {}

objUser = User()

objUser.DynamicProperty["blah"] = 4
objUser.DynamicProperty["foo"] = [1, 42, "hello"]

print objUser.DynamicProperty["blah"]

etc...

I don't know much about properties in VB, but an expression like

objUser.DynamicProperty("X")

implies that DynamicProperty is a method of objUser, and thus a 
function. Assigning to it isn't possible, compare

def twice(x): return 2*x

twice(4) = 7

Doesn't make much sense, does it? :)  Not in Python anyway.

HTH,

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