On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 02:32:33PM -0500, Joseph Hackman wrote: > Generally speaking, I'm +1 on this idea, I think it would make code > more readable, especially for tools like IDEs. > > I just wanted to ask: can someone point me to the reason Python > doesn't support referencing a class inside it's own definition? It > seems like that would solve some of the cases discussed here, and with > Type hinting that seems like something that maybe should be > considered?
The simple answer is: since the class doesn't exist yet, you cannot refer to it. The class name is just a regular name: py> MyClass = 'something else' py> class MyClass: ... print(MyClass) ... something else so the interpreter would need to provide some special-cased magic inside the class body to make it work as you expect. That may be a good idea, but it is a separate issue from this. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
