On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:00:41AM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> >The obvious solution to customising assignment is to use a dotted
> >target:
> >
> > obj.x = value
>
> Another problem with this is that we don't want to customise *all*
> assignments. Sometimes we just want a regular Python assignment.
> (See my previous post about two different kinds of assignment.)
>
> I think that talking about this in terms of "customising assignment"
> is misleading and is causing a lot of confusion.
You might be right, but then the first first post in this thread talked
about it:
I realize there is no way to overload the behavior of the
assignment operator in python
... where signal = 5 will always make signal to be 5, instead of
feeding 5 into this signal.
(the second being a *bad thing*) so I'm pretty sure that using a new
assignment-like operator instead of = is the OP's second choice.
--
Steven
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