Controlling assignation

[egbert]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:52:14PM +0200, Xavier Décoret wrote:
> In other word, I would like to be able to use a=5 instead of a.set(5)

If a(5) is acceptable to you in stead of a=5
you can make your instance callable with the __call__ method:


class A(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.var=0
    def __call__(self,val=None):
        self.var=val

a = A()
a(5)
print a.var  # gives 5

egbert
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