Code redundancy

[Alan Harris-Reid]

Ryan Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 14:43 +0100, Alan Harris-Reid wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> During my Python (3.1) programming I often find myself having to repeat 
>> code such as...
>>
>> class1.attr1 = 1
>> class1.attr2 = 2
>> class1.attr3 = 3
>> class1.attr4 = 4
>> etc.
>>
>> Is there any way to achieve the same result without having to repeat the 
>> class1 prefix?  Before Python my previous main language was Visual 
>> Foxpro, which had the syntax...
>>
>> with class1
>>    .attr1 = 1
>>    .attr2 = 2
>>    .attr3 = 3
>>    .attr4 = 4
>>    etc.
>> endwith
>>
>> Is there any equivalent to this in Python?
>>     
>
>
> Please don't take this as in invitation to disregard the excellent
> advice already received in this thread - I just want to point out that
> python can usually be bent to your will.  Observe:
>
>   
>   from withhacks import namespace
>
>   with namespace(class1):
>       attr1 = 1
>       attr2 = 2
>
>
> This will do pretty much what you get from the "with" statement in
> javascript (I assume it's similar to Visual Foxpro).
>
>
> But don't use this in any real code.  Seriously, don't even think about
> it.  You don't want to know the kind of abuses that go on under the
> covers to make this kind of syntax hacking work...
>
>
>
>   Cheers,
>
>      Ryan
Hi Ryan, thanks for that.

No - I will not be adopting that solution.  Is there anything Python 
can't do if you bend the rules far enough?  ;-)

Regards,
Alan
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