[Python-ideas] Assignment decorators (Re: The Descriptor Protocol...)

[Ethan Furman]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> That is, something that
>> made it feasible to reference the name on the left hand side of a
>> simple assignment without needing to repeat it as a string with the
>> same contents.
> 
> I think we should have assignment decorators.
> 
> @decorator
> lhs = rhs
> 
> would be equivalent to
> 
> lhs = decorator('lhs', rhs)

That seems very verbose -- part of the issue for me is all the extra 
typing involved in specifying the name twice, and I don't think this is 
going to save many, if any, keystrokes.

~Ethan~