[Python-ideas] Quick idea: defining variables from functions that take the variable name

[Piotr Duda]

2016-06-02 14:45 GMT+02:00 Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>:

> But if you want to extend it to solve "far more" (whatever you mean by
> that), please don't hijack this thread. If you think of some other
> problems you would like to solve (whatever they might be), please feel
> free to propose a solution to them in another thread. But *this*
> discussion is about solving *this problem*:
>
>     Some (but not all) functions need to know the name of their
>     assignment target, so that the object they return can give
>     itself a name that matches that target. Or to put it another
>     way, some objects need to know their own name. The existing
>     solution to that is simple, but inelegant and annoying: you
>     have to manually type the name as a string and pass it as an
>     argument to the function.
>
> If you want to solve some other problem, please do! But that's not part
> of this thread, and if the proposed solution to *this* problem doesn't
> solve *your* problem, that's irrelevant.
>

I want to extend it to: some object also need to know module they're
declared and their own qualified name (for example for pickling support).


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