On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 5:05 PM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it possible at all to define a class in Python that
> can read name of variable it is assigned to on init?
>
> >>> MyObject = SomeClass()
> >>> print(MyObject)
> 'MyObject'
This feature would be useful for things like namedtuple, where we
currently have to write the name twice:
record = namedtuple('record', 'a b c d')
But I'm not sure why Anatoly is asking here. It would be a change in
semantics of Python, and while I suppose it's possible for PyPy to lead
the way with a semantic change for Python 3.5 or higher, or even an
implementation-specific feature that other Python's don't offer, I would
expect that normally this idea should go through CPython first.
--
Steven
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