Alternative to multi-line lambdas: Assign-anywhere def statements

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/23/2015 10:28 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 
> cmd = {}
> def command(func):
>     cmd[func.__name__] = func
>     return func
> 
> @command
> def foo(*args):
>     print("You asked to foo.")
> 
> but this is hardly generic. There's no convenient way to give an
> argument to a decorator that says "please assign this here", short of
> using some stupid eval hack... is there?

If the non-generic is what you're concerned about:

# not tested
dispatch_table_a = {}
dispatch_table_b = {}
dispatch_table_c = {}

class dispatch:
  def __init__(self, dispatch_table):
    self.dispatch = dispatch_table
  def __call__(self, func):
    self.dispatch[func.__name__] = func
    return func

@dispatch(dispatch_table_a)
def foo(...):
   pass

--
~Ethan~

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