Addition of a .= operator

dn PythonList at DancesWithMice.info
Sat May 20 14:11:02 EDT 2023


On 21/05/2023 05.54, Alex Jando wrote:
> I have many times had situations where I had a variable of a certain type, all I cared about it was one of it's methods.
> 
> For example:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> import hashlib
> hash = hashlib.sha256(b'word')
> hash = hash.hexdigest()
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> import enum
> class Number(enum.Enum):
>          One: int = 1
>          Two: int = 2
>          Three: int = 3
> num = Number.One
> num = num.value
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Now to be fair, in the two situations above, I could just access the method right as I declare the object, however, sometimes when passing values into functions, it's a lot messier to do that.
> 
> So what I'm suggesting is something like this:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> import hashlib
> hash = hashlib.sha256(b'word')
> hash.=hexdigest()
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> import enum
> class Number(enum.Enum):
>          One: int = 1
>          Two: int = 2
>          Three: int = 3
> num = Number.One
> num.=value
> ------------------------------------------------------------

A custom-class wrapper?
Even, a decorator-able function?

-- 
Regards,
=dn


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