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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 12:52:58AM +0000, Michael Selik wrote:

> You brought up decorators as an example, but I think that was more about
> how decorators tend to be used essentially as part of the function
> definition. They might dramatically alter the behavior of the function and
> yet appear as an afterthought without the decorator syntax. From the PEP
> 318, "This becomes less readable with longer [functions]". The motivation
> said nothing about avoiding typing the function name twice.

Three times, not twice, and the PEP does mention it, right at the 
beginning:

"It also seems less than pythonic to name the function three times for 
what is conceptually a single declaration."

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/#motivation



-- 
Steve