Assignement Overloading

[Paul Prescod]

Pierre Denis wrote:
> 
> I am trying to emulate some kind of type checking in Python (sorry for the heresy). Because of the dynamic typing, my unpretentious
> goal is to intercept the assignment statement in order to perform a consistency check between the variable and the object to assign.

I'd suggest you look at for ideas or even a starting point:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/python/nondist/sandbox/typecheck/

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