Proposal for new operators to python that add syntactic sugar for hierarcical data.

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Heiko Wundram a écrit :
> Am Freitag 19 Mai 2006 02:08 schrieb Bruno Desthuilliers:
> 
>>We'd need the make: statement, but the BDFL has pronounced against.
>>
>>I'm still -2 against your proposition, but it could make a good use case
>>for the make statement. I gave an eye at the new 'with' statement, but
>>I'm not sure it could be used to solve this.
> 
> 
> Couldn't. "with" is a blatant misnomer for that it's functionality is 
> (basically a "protected" generator), at least if you know what with does in 
> VB   (god, am I really comparing VB with Python?

Lol !-)

>  And I've never even programmed 
> in the former...)

I did in a previous life. And believe me, this is kind of a WTF 
language... To quote the poet : "Dumb all over, a little ugly on the side".

But I was not thinking about anything related to VB's 'with' !-)
Just about what other (than class) statements defines a block that then 
becomes a namespace you can manipulate.

Something like:

with Node('root') as root:
    with Node('head') as head:
       with Node('title') as title:
          title.content = "Page Title"
       for s in section:
          with Node('section %s' % s['title']) as section:
              section.content = s['content']


Now the question is : how to we get the Node objects back ? If possible 
without adding them explicitely to the parent object ? (which would not 
solve the problem of the root Node anyway).