On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Alireza Rafiei <alireza.rafie...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess I should have framed it as a `quote` for python. You're absolutely > right that it shouldn't be modifying the assigned object and it doesn't. I > mentioned the Assign to say that in `x = f`, `x` has name as well, however > `x.__name__` returns the name of `f` and not `x`. > > As for the `f = "hello"`, the value of the name "f" would be "hello" and the > value of the name "hello" would be "hello". > > My proposal is to either change the behavior of `__name__` or have something > similar that acts globally for all objects and types to get a quote-like > behavior, provided that the operands of quotes are atomic.
Hmm. So... after x = f, f.__name__ would be different from x.__name__? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
