On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 3:45 PM Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote: > > Another idea if you really want to be able to do `foo = 5` and have it behave > the way you want: > > Create a custom dictionary type to hold locals() (and perhaps globals() if > needed). Unless I'm wrong, that dict type can pretty much do whatever you > want, including overriding assignment behavior. Then just run the code using > exec(), passing the custom hdl_locals(). > > You could package up a custom python interpreter for hardware programming > which simply execs() the python code using this customized assignment > behavior provided by hdl_locals(). Such a customized namespace is a very > pythonic approach, and if I understand correctly, most regular non hdl python > would probably be able to run.
I am not sure I understand this ... could you give me a short example? The thing is, it need to work at arbitrary closures, not just the __main__, and you would like to import a hardware module just like you import a python module. If there is a one single thing that is not really python native, I feel it kind of defeated the purpose of creating a Python HDL in the first place. (and execs() are scary too ...) _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
