[PEP 203] Augmented Assignment

[Frank Niessink]

Frank Niessink <frankn=nuws at cs.vu.nl> wrote:

> Maybe a stupid question, but why is there no hook for the regular
> assignment in this proposal? The proposal talks about 12 assignment 
> operators, of which 11 are 'inplace' and 1 regular. But there is
> no hook for the regular assignment. If a hook would be created for 
> regular assignment the object can decide what happens if something is
> assigned to it.

> Silly example: 

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Now I remember where this also might be useful: when using Tkinter.
The silly IntVar and StringVar (and set() and get()) always annoyed me. 
With __assign__ at least the set and get methods wouldn't be needed 
anymore.

Cheers, Frank

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