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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 11:10:19AM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >name -> Function(args)
> >
> >will be expanded to:
> >
> >name = Function('name', args)
> 
> Another possibility would be to expand it to
> 
>    name = Function(args)
>    name.__name__ = "name"

That priviledges one specific use of the name over all others. You'll 
note that I was very careful to describe the use-case as "objects that 
need to know their own name" but didn't specify what they did with the 
name. Maybe they bind it to self.__name__, but maybe they use self.name 
instead. Or they write it to a database. Who knows?

I don't think we should specify what the object does with the name.


-- 
Steve